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Politicamente corretto: Il conformismo morale come regime

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Un’analisi originale del politicamente corretto come forma di comunicazione e come riflesso delle profonde trasformazioni all’opera negli ultimi decenni nel contesto delle società occidentali. A partire da una prospettiva originale come quella svedese, e da una serie di situazioni vissute in prima persona, l’antropologo Jonathan Friedman analizza il politicamente corretto come una particolare realtà sociale, e come uno strumento politico nelle mani delle nuove élite. Una realtà sintomatica di un insieme di fenomeni (l’immigrazione, il multiculturalismo, la segregazione sociale, il “declino” dello Stato-nazione, etc.) cruciali da comprendere per preservare uno spazio critico razionale e una sfera pubblica in cui sia ancora possibile discutere differenti interpretazioni della realtà. Una critica arguta del contesto moraleggiante in cui viviamo e della sua pretesa di neutralizzare il dibattito stabilendo ciò di cui si può, e ciò di cui non si deve, parlare.

353 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 21, 2018

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July 31, 2020
Veers between Christopher Lasch and Breitbart tier criticism with a number of case studies (primarily European) but noting that original... just an old social democrat with a lot of faith in nationalism and the right moral stanch as a framework to counter the rootless cosmopolitans and their relativism... obviously doesn't want to fancy the idea that politics has been transnationalized to a point of no return and any tenability of a manageable national consensus is gone with it. Summary of the metalinguistics:
I am suggesting here that PC is a form of communication in which the sign value, that is, the category value of utterances and texts, is considerably more significant than their semantic content. PC identifies political positions rather than propositional content. It bears close resemblance to situations in which shame is a dominant control mechanism and might easily be associated with classical descriptions of witchcraft accusations. The conditions in which PC functions are shaped by institutional arrangements. In fragmented societies, PC is decentralized, anarchic, and ultimately self-destructive. In more centralized societies, it can be quite compact and homogeneous. PC can also occur in response to historical transformations. I have suggested that the decline of modernist identity in the West has led to an increase in narcissism (Friedman 1992), other-directedness, and other-dependency. Narcissists can find themselves only in the eyes of the other. This situation is a condition for the emergence of what some have called tribalism (Maffésoli 1988): the decline of individualism even as, paradoxically, the individual as a person or body gains prominence. Group dependency increases, paradoxically, simultaneously with individualization.
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December 9, 2022
Un testo privo di rigore scientifico, per quanto faccia di tutto per ammantarsi di una patina spessa di autoevidenza. Uno dei più grandi coacervi di rivalse personali, di "fidatevi, ve lo dico io", e di fallacie logiche e false equivalenze che mi sia mai capitato.

Presenta esempi della "follia del politicamente corretto" come: uno studente ha dovuto lasciare il corso perché aveva espresso un'opinione considerata non PC.
Quale studente? Di quale università? Quando è successo?
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July 26, 2025
The author provides multiple assurances that he is not too close to the subject matter to write this book ... reader, you must not believe him. The tone is defensive and histrionic, and the "analysis" is pat and unconvincing. Unimpressive and a waste of time.
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