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Record Nr.

UNINA9910964503003321

Titolo

PC on Earth: The Beginnings of the Totalitarian Mindset / / Jabbar Moradi, Jasmin Dall'Agnola, Josette Baer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2020

ISBN

9783838274003

3838274008

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 pages)

Disciplina

306.0973

Soggetti

Politik

Totalitarismus

System

Politics

Political correctness

Totalitarianism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PC on Earth -- Political Correctness: Useful for Science? -- Rewriting the Dictionary -- The Ethical Dilemma of Political Correctness: Sacrificing Enlightenment Ideals for Subjective Social Compliance -- Wise Words -- In Defence of Political Correctness -- Shaping the World -- Never Mind Political Correctness-Focus on the Real Enemy -- Queer Culture and Tolerance in Kazakhstan. A Critical Reflection on Politically Correct Speech -- Briefly … PC in Contemporary Hungary -- Looking for Partisans in Crimea or  How Russophobia Led to WWI -- PC in the PRC -- List of Authors.

Sommario/riassunto

What is political correctness? What is conformism? And could one say that pre-emptive conformism is a part of the increasingly prevalent climate of political correctness encountered today? The authors of "PC on Earth" take issue with a fashionable phenomenon emerging from North American campuses that is beginning to take hold in Europe, too: the dangerous consequences of identity politics and pre-emptive conformism, which they define as an essential element of political



correctness. This book is a collection of short stories, satire, philosophical analysis, travel reports, political analysis, and personal experiences. The authors, all Europeans, present diverse views on a controversial topic. This collection offers readers independent and free-thinking opinions they will get nowhere else.