The politics of moralizing /

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Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 248 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Social ethics. Ethics, Modern. Dogmatism. Political anthropology. Dogmatism. Ethics, Modern. Political anthropology. Social ethics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11303774

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Other authors / contributors:	Bennett, Jane, 1957- Shapiro, Michael J.
ISBN:	9781136705458 1136705457 1299866956 9781299866959 9781315023557 1315023555 9781136705595 1136705597 9781136705526 113670552X 041593477X 9780415934770 0415934788 9780415934787
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The Politics of Moralizing issues a stern warning about the risks of speaking, writing, and thinking in a manner too confident about one's own judgments and asks, ""Can a clear line be drawn between dogmatism and simple certainty and indignation?"" Bennett and Shapiro enter the debate by questioning what has become a popular, even pervasive, cultural narrative told by both the left and the right: the story of the West's moral decline, degeneration, or confusion. Contributors explore the dynamics and dilemmas of moralizing by advocates of patriotism, environmental protection, and wom.
Other form:	Print version: Politics of moralizing 041593477X

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Jane Bennett, Michael J. Shapiro
The moraline drift / Jane Bennett
Generating a virtuous circle: democratic identify, moralism, and the languages of political responsibility / Alan Keenan
Political not patriotic: democracy, civic space, and the American memorial-monument complex / Steven Johnston
Autobiography and cultivating the arts of the female self / Ann Curthoys
The tragedy of the ethical commons: demoralizing environmentalism / William Chaloupka
Out for a walk / Helen Liggett
Just the facts, please: why civil society does not need moral truths / Jill Locke
The challenge of polytheism: Moses, Spinoza, and freud / John Docker
Affirming the political: tragic affirmations versus gothic displacements / Michael J. Shapiro.

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