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The New Barbarism and the Modern West - Recognizing an Ethic of Difference (Hardcover)
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The New Barbarism and the Modern West - Recognizing an Ethic of Difference (Hardcover)
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Liberalism is being called into question both in practice and in
principle, from insurgencies at its bloody hinterlands and from the
illiberal responses those insurgencies engender within the
so-called civilized world, with technological integration creating
the conditions for new forms of barbarism. What then are the
chances of progress towards a substantial equality of freedoms
within this new context of retrograde attitudes framed by the
occlusion of others as somehow essentially different? How can we
register the significances of cultural distinctions without letting
those 'we's' and 'they's' split an emergent global civil society
into parochial retro-nations, where belonging knows itself only by
exclusion? What is it that is being called out of the spirit of
modernity in our seemingly backward-moving age of essentialized
others and self-righteous rage? And to the end of inter-cultural
understanding, how can we come to know the other, both through the
care of others and in ourselves? This work of political theory
reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of
essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of
barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological
progress. In response to the excesses of modernity, the author
looks to advances an ethic of difference, inverting the golden rule
so as to do unto others as those others would do unto themselves.
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