The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism: Think Now
Autor Russell Blackforden Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 oct 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350056008
ISBN-10: 1350056006
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Think Now
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350056006
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Think Now
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Extremely timely critique of political tribalism and the 'call-out-culture' hugely prevalent in news and social media today
Notă biografică
Russell Blackford is a philosopher, legal scholar, literary critic based at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (2012), Humanity Enhanced (2014), The Mystery of Moral Authority (2016) and Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination (2017). In 2014, he was inducted as a Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism.
Cuprins
PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction and overview2. Mill on liberty: Morality, paternalism, and harm3. Freedom of thought and freedom of speech4. The limits to speaking our minds5. Conformity and its limits6. Ideology, propaganda, and outrage7. You can't say that! Identity politics and the flight from liberalism8. Cyberspace and its discontents9. Conclusion: What can you do?BibliographyIndex
Recenzii
Blackford does a good job explaining how the rise of the internet has made self-expression much more risky, since any violation of supposed norms can result in the formation of an internet mob in hours.
Anyone who has felt chills after watching a news story about crazy SJWs on a college campus or witnessing a P.C. mob on Twitter should read this book for a more nuanced understanding of political correctness and the 1st Amendment, in general.
Ultimately, Blackford enjoins readers to 'take a stand, as loudly as [they] dare, for liberal values and for freedom'. Noting that most of us are happy to entertain and to venture a much greater range of views and opinions in private than we are in public, he suggests that we should, to the extent that we can, be courageous in doing so publicly, for the sake of 'true' liberal principles and values...Blackford's book exemplifies how things might be if only we would all stop shouting at one another and learn to listen.
If we are to have a coherent commitment to free speech, our conception of that value should allow for it to be applied consistently, whether involving controversial expressions by either friends or enemies, or the expression of either popular or unpopular ideas. The Tyranny of Opinion is a valuable resource in helping us to think these problems through, and I'd encourage you to read it.
On that (literary) point, Blackford has a beautiful, calm, civil voice. He writes gorgeously, guiding the reader through a great deal of material with expertise and, sometimes, élan. It is a lesson in how to argue, and how to think. The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism is an exceptional book. Anyone who engages in political debate should read it.
A masterpiece. This should be required reading for every university professor.
As the Right devolves into barbaric know-nothingism and the Left becomes a censorious, perpetual offense machine, Russell Blackford reminds us that our greatest source of political virtue and strength is our liberal heritage. At a time when crucial questions of civil discourse, free-speech, and democracy have become tools in a bloody fight between ideologues and hyper-partisans, Blackford brings to them a careful examination of specific cases and a learned consideration of some of the key texts in classical liberal philosophy. Rigorous, readable, and on the side of the angels, Tyranny of Opinion represents the entry of one of our most thoughtful and talented public intellectuals into what is arguably the central cultural conflict of our day.
Anyone who has felt chills after watching a news story about crazy SJWs on a college campus or witnessing a P.C. mob on Twitter should read this book for a more nuanced understanding of political correctness and the 1st Amendment, in general.
Ultimately, Blackford enjoins readers to 'take a stand, as loudly as [they] dare, for liberal values and for freedom'. Noting that most of us are happy to entertain and to venture a much greater range of views and opinions in private than we are in public, he suggests that we should, to the extent that we can, be courageous in doing so publicly, for the sake of 'true' liberal principles and values...Blackford's book exemplifies how things might be if only we would all stop shouting at one another and learn to listen.
If we are to have a coherent commitment to free speech, our conception of that value should allow for it to be applied consistently, whether involving controversial expressions by either friends or enemies, or the expression of either popular or unpopular ideas. The Tyranny of Opinion is a valuable resource in helping us to think these problems through, and I'd encourage you to read it.
On that (literary) point, Blackford has a beautiful, calm, civil voice. He writes gorgeously, guiding the reader through a great deal of material with expertise and, sometimes, élan. It is a lesson in how to argue, and how to think. The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism is an exceptional book. Anyone who engages in political debate should read it.
A masterpiece. This should be required reading for every university professor.
As the Right devolves into barbaric know-nothingism and the Left becomes a censorious, perpetual offense machine, Russell Blackford reminds us that our greatest source of political virtue and strength is our liberal heritage. At a time when crucial questions of civil discourse, free-speech, and democracy have become tools in a bloody fight between ideologues and hyper-partisans, Blackford brings to them a careful examination of specific cases and a learned consideration of some of the key texts in classical liberal philosophy. Rigorous, readable, and on the side of the angels, Tyranny of Opinion represents the entry of one of our most thoughtful and talented public intellectuals into what is arguably the central cultural conflict of our day.