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The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents
How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture
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eBook - PDF
The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents
How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture
About this book
American culture is changing, a sentiment echoed in phrases such as "the new normal," and "in these uncertain times," that regularly introduce all forms of public discourse now, signally a national sense of vulnerability and transformation. Cultural shifts generally involve multiple catalysts, but in this collection the contributors focus on the role changing discourse norms play in cancel culture, corporatism, the counter-sexual revolution, racialism, and a radically divided political climate. Three central themes arise in the arguments. First, that contemporary discourse norms emphasize outcomes rather than shared understanding, which support institutional and political goals but contribute to the contemporary political divide, and the notion that we are engaged in a zero-sum game. These discourse norms give rise to a form of Adorno's administered world, such that we order society according to dominant opinions, which generally means those well acclimated to institutional and corporate culture. Finally, as Arendt feared, the personal has become political, meaning that the toxic public discourse invades private discourse, reducing personal autonomy and leaving us perpetually under the scrutiny of institutional authority.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents
- The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents: How Changing Discourse Norms Are Changing Culture
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1 Institutional Discourse
- Chapter 1
- The Outsourcing of Ethical Thinking
- Chapter 2
- The Diversity of “Diversity”
- Chapter 3
- Undermining Communicative Action in the Medical Encounter
- Chapter 4
- The Rebirth of Canonical Love
- Part 2 Tribal Discourse
- Chapter 5
- The Social Justice Discourse Ethic
- Chapter 6
- Dealing with the Devil
- Chapter 7
- From “Post-Racial America” to #BlackLivesMatter
- Part 3 The Pandemic
- Chapter 8
- Lessons from the Death Zone
- Chapter 9
- Strategic Discourse in the Time of the Coronavirus
- Index
- About the Contributors