LEADER 05409nam 22006494a 450 001 9910953301903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780826263155 010 $a0826263151 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005362 035 $a(OCoLC)55663962 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10048206 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000206405 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954542 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000206405 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10214705 035 $a(PQKB)10261321 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570745 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10048206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570745 035 $a(Perlego)1704315 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005362 100 $a20020605d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMulticulturalism and the politics of guilt $etoward a secular theocracy /$fPaul Edward Gottfried 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia, Mo. $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780826214171 311 08$a0826214177 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From the Managerial to the Therapeutic State -- 1. The Death of Socialism? -- 2. Religious Foundations of the Managerial Therapeutic State -- 3. The Managerial as Therapeutic State -- 4. A Sensitized World -- 5. Whither the Populist Right -- Conclusion: A Secular Theocracy -- Index. 330 8 $aMulticulturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried's examination of Western managerial government's growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, the book argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike bourgeois liberalism, has rejected the once conventional distinction between government and civil society.             Gottfried argues that the West's relentless celebrations of diversity have resulted in the downgrading of the once dominant Western culture. The moral rationale of government has become the consciousness-raising of a presumed majority population. While welfare states continue to provide entitlements and fulfill the other material programs of older welfare regimes, they have ceased to make qualitative leaps in the direction of social democracy. For the new political elite, nationalization and income redistributions have become less significant than controlling the speech and thought of democratic citizens. An escalating hostility toward the bourgeois Christian past, explicit or at least implicit in the policies undertaken by the West and urged by the media, is characteristic of what Gottfried labels an emerging "therapeutic" state.         For Gottfried, acceptance of an intrusive political correctness has transformed the religious consciousness of Western, particularly Protestant, society. The casting of "true" Christianity as a religion of sensitivity only toward victims has created a precondition for extensive social engineering. Gottfried examines late-twentieth-century liberal Christianity as the promoter of the politics of guilt. Metaphysical guilt has been transformed into self-abasement in relation to the "suffering just" identified with racial, cultural, and lifestyle minorities. Unlike earlier proponents of religious liberalism, the therapeutic statists oppose anything, including empirical knowledge, that impedes the expression of social and cultural guilt in an effort to raise the self-esteem of designated victims.             Equally troubling to Gottfried is the growth of an American empire that is influencing European values and fashions. Europeans have begun, he says, to embrace the multicultural movement that originated with American liberal Protestantism's emphasis on diversity as essential for democracy. He sees Europeans bringing authoritarian zeal to enforcing ideas and behavior imported from the United States.             Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends the arguments of the author's earlier After Liberalism. Whether one challenges or supports Gottfried's conclusions, all will profit from a careful reading of this latest diagnosis of the American condition. 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States 606 $aMulticulturalism$zUnited States 606 $aBehavior modification$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical correctness$zUnited States 606 $aCultural pluralism$zUnited States 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aMulticulturalism 615 0$aBehavior modification 615 0$aPolitical correctness 615 0$aCultural pluralism 676 $a305/.0973 700 $aGottfried$b Paul$0872498 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953301903321 996 $aMulticulturalism and the politics of guilt$94358323 997 $aUNINA