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Progressive Anonymity

eBook - From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
ISBN/EAN: 9781538136041
Umbreit-Nr.: 1558875

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 212 S.
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Erschienen am 24.11.2020
Auflage: 1/2020


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  • Zusatztext
    • <p><span>Naomi Zack critiques identity politics and argues that both political and social identities should not enter democratic government. She proposes evidence-based government by anonymous stakeholders, without preference for group affiliation or political charisma. Central to this book is the theme that government should have an enduring goal of minimizing misery. Toward that goal, the imperfections of evidence, matched by the imperfections of democracy, need to be accepted in commitments to piecemeal public policies that benefit and include oppressors as well as the oppressed. This strategy preserves the social compact idea that government exists for the benefit of</span><span>all</span><span> those governed. Zacks original work will be useful to both scholars and students interested in studies of race, political philosophy, social philosophy, and cultural criticism.</span></p>
  • Kurztext
    • <p><span>Continuing her visionary work in social-political philosophy, Zack critiques identity politics as perpetuating damaging essentialist perspectives and policies. The </span><span>antidote to identity group egoism is anonymity based on relevant shared interests and a meritocracy led by experts chosen without preference for group affiliation or political charisma.</span></p> <p></p>
  • Autorenportrait
    • <p><span>Naomi Zack</span><span> is professor of philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY, and was awarded the 2021 John Dewey lectureship by the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. She is author of ten books, including Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice (2016); White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (2015); The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (2011); and Ethics for Disaster (2009). She has also written ten textbooks and edited anthologies and lectured widely in the United States and abroad. Zack is coeditor for the Rowman&amp; Littlefield book series Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy.</span></p>