Against the New Politics of Identity

Against the New Politics of Identity

by Ronald A. Lindsay
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 14/11/2023

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In Against the New Politics of Identity, philosopher Ronald A. Lindsay offers a sustained criticism of the far-reaching cultural transformation occurring across much of the West by which individuals are defined primarily by their group identity, such as race, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Driven largely by the political Left, this transformation has led to the wholesale grouping of individuals into oppressed and oppressor classes in both theory and practice. He warns that the push for identity politics on the Left predictably elicits a parallel reaction from the Right, including the Right's own version of identity politics in the form of Christian nationalism. As Lindsay makes clear, the symbiotic relationship that has formed between these two political poles risks producing even deeper threats to Enlightenment values and Western democracy. If we are to preserve a liberal democracy in which the rights of individuals are respected, he concludes, the dogmas of identity politics must be challenged and refuted. Against the New Politics of Identity offers a principled path for doing so.

ISBN:
9781634312455
9781634312455
Category:
Religion & politics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
14-11-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pitchstone Publishing

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