Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt
Toward a Secular Theocracy
Published on 2. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-8262-1520-8 (ISBN)
Description
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried's examination of Western managerial government's growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, the book argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike bourgeois liberalism, has rejected the once conventional distinction between government and civil society.
Reviews / Votes
It is a small, conservative, philosophical gem, and I love it.--Amos Perimutter; ""Gottfried's book addresses multicultural ideology and its program: to fashion beliefs and behavior in conformity with the multicultural outlook on the world, which is one of victim and victimizer.... His analysis of the situation both in the United States and in western Europe is devastating and brilliant, and in providing a precise analysis of what it is we are up against he has produced a book from which any authentic conservative would benefit."" - American Conservative; ""Gottfried has seen an aspect of multiculturalism and political correctness that previous critics of these doctrines have failed adequately to stress. He uses his insight to develop a brilliant analysis and critique of the modern managerial and therapeutic state.... Gottfried has dissected the social effects of the contemporary church better than anyone else of whom I am aware."" - Mises ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Missouri
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student, Interest Age: From 18 to 100 years
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8262-1520-8 (9780826215208)
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Person
Paul Edward Gottfried is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State and The Search for Historical Meaning: Hegel and the Postwar American Right.