Social Identities and Social Justice (eBook)

Reconceiving Ethics and Politics in the Wake of Wokeism

William Franke (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
289 Seiten
Academica Press (Verlag)
978-1-68053-382-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term woke calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics. The social justice movement challenges us to fundamentally reconceive our being with one another in society and to re-embrace our profoundest traditions. Focus on identities, however, has become divisive and vexatious. InSocial Identities and Social Justice,William Franke indicates a way to exit from the current impasse empoisoning politics in Western democracies by thinking the concept of identity through to its grounds in thenon-identity (or undelimited human potential) that all share and that unites rather than divides us. The traditions of negative theology (admission of ignorance of God) and apophasis (self-critical unsaying of ones own certainties) are leveraged for outlining a truly relational approach to public discourse. We must open our concepts of mutually exclusive identities towards their infinite truth rooted in our unlimited interconnectedness. Doing so, we open our ideas beyond their finite content and open ourselves to building a world together.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Social Science, Political Science, Philosophy, Public Affairs, Sociology, Wokeism, Cancel Culture
• ISBN-10: 1-68053-382-7 / 1680533827
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68053-382-8 / 9781680533828