PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415910730 ISBN 13: 9780415910736

Verlag: Routledge, 1995

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PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It includes statements from many of our leading contemporary public intellectuals, including Joan Wallach Scott, Michael Bérubé, Bruce Robbins, Henry Giroux, and Gerald Graff. The collection marks a watershed in the debate about pc in that it presents serious considerations and analyses of the factors, causes, and consequences of the culture wars. Carefully examining the construction of pc, PC Wars analyses political correctness by focusing on the mass media, class politics, and the ideology of managerial democracy. It places the disputes around pc in the context of contemporary developments in critical and cultural theory and the current backlash against theory, manifested in the recent attacks on Marxism, feminism and deconstruction. The book also scrutinizes the undercurrents of anti-intellectualism and anti-professionalism which have tended to create a fertile ground for the pc hysteria. Offering much more than slogans and slinging arrows, PC Wars provides a spirited and critical look at the reaction, ideology, and political forces that have coalesced around the term. Contributors: Michael Bérubé, Reed Way Dasenbrock, Frank Farmer, Henry Giroux, Gerald Graff, Darlene Hantzis and Devoney Looser, John S. Howard and James M. Lang, Tom Lewis, James Neilson, Christopher Newfield, Richard Ohmann, Burce Robbins, Barry Sarchett, Joan W. Scott, Michael Sprinker, Jeffrey Williams

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The debate around political correctness has been loud, public, and fractious. The skirmishes have been featured everywhere, from Time to The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour, while the subjects of the attack-the teachers-have been largely pushed off to the sidelines. Out of the uneven terrain comes PC Wars, the first book dedicated to a serious analysis of the PC phenomenon.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415910730
• ISBN 13: 9780415910736
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Williams Jeffrey
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