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The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents
How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture
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2020
Summary
American culture is changing, a sentiment echoed in phrases such as “the new normal,” and “in these uncertain times,” that regularly introduce all forms of public discourse now, signally a national sense of vulnerability and transformation. Cultural shifts generally involve multiple catalysts, but in this collection the contributors focus on the role changing discourse norms play in cancel culture, corporatism, the counter-sexual revolution, racialism, and a radically divided political climate. Three central themes arise in the arguments. First, that contemporary discourse norms emphasize outcomes rather than shared understanding, which support institutional and political goals but contribute to the contemporary political divide, and the notion that we are engaged in a zero-sum game. These discourse norms give rise to a form of Adorno’s administered world, such that we order society according to dominant opinions, which generally means those well acclimated to institutional and corporate culture. Finally, as Arendt feared, the personal has become political, meaning that the toxic public discourse invades private discourse, reducing personal autonomy and leaving us perpetually under the scrutiny of institutional authority.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0799-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0800-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
284
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 1 The Outsourcing of Ethical Thinking No access
Chapter 2 The Diversity of “Diversity” No access
Chapter 3 Undermining Communicative Action in the Medical Encounter No access
Chapter 4 The Rebirth of Canonical Love No access
Chapter 5 The Social Justice Discourse Ethic No access
Chapter 6 Dealing with the Devil No access
Chapter 7 From “Post-Racial America” to #BlackLivesMatter No access
Chapter 8 Lessons from the Death Zone No access
Chapter 9 Strategic Discourse in the Time of the Coronavirus No access
