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Titolo |
PC on Earth: The Beginnings of the Totalitarian Mindset / / Jabbar Moradi, Jasmin Dall'Agnola, Josette Baer |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (147 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Politik |
Totalitarismus |
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Politics |
Political correctness |
Totalitarianism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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