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Reviving the Social Compact
eBook - Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics, Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy
ISBN/EAN: 9781538120132
Umbreit-Nr.: 2138266
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 208 S.
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Erschienen am 05.11.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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- Zusatztext
- <span>Naomi Zacks</span><span>Reviving the Social Compact:</span><span>Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics</span><span> addresses current political and social upheaval and distress with new concepts for the relationship between citizens and government. Politics has become</span><span>turbo-charged</span><span> as a form of agonistic contest where candidates and the public become more focused on winning than on governing or holding the government accountable for the benefit of the people. This failure of the government to fulfill its part of the social contract calls for a new</span><span>social compact</span><span>wherein citizens as a collective whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions.<br><br>Analyzing present and evolving events, Zack</span><span></span><span>reveals how race has exceeded intersection after formal rights have failed to correct ongoing discrimination; how class is no longer based on real life interests and has been manufactured and manipulated for political contest; how women have made spectacular progress but how the fame of elite women has left out poor, non-white women, transgender people, and sex workers; how natural disasters have not been (and perhaps cannot be) adequately prepared for or responded to by government; how environmental preservation becomes politicized; how homelessness could be fixed through capitalism; and how immigration reform has pivoted from inclusion to expulsion and why hospitality is an important civic virtue.<br><br></span><span>Reviving the Social Compact</span><span> is a call for good citizenship. Voting is the first stepbecause in a divided two-party system, a change from one party to the other is tantamount to revolutionand a new understanding of the social compact can lead to the stable civic life we need at this time.</span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>Zack addresses current upheavals with a new conception of the relationship between citizens and government. Analyzing current states of race, class, gender, and other measures of social wellbeing, Zack promotes a new </span><span>social compact</span><span> wherein</span><span> </span><span>citizens as a whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions to ensure stability. </span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span>Naomi Zack</span><span> is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and is author of</span><span>Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice</span><span>,</span><span>White Privilege</span><span>and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide</span><span>,</span><span>The Ethics</span><span>and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy,</span><span>and</span><span>Ethics for Disaster</span><span>.</span>