New Religious Intolerance Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age

Name: New Religious Intolerance Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
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ISBN: 9780674725911

ISBN-10: 0674725913

ISBN-13: 9780674725911

Edition: 2013

Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum

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What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian terrorist was the perpetrator? Why did Switzerland, a country of four minarets, vote to ban those structures? How did a proposed Muslim cultural center in lower Manhattan ignite a fevered political debate across the United States? In "The New Religious Intolerance, " Martha C. Nussbaum surveys such developments and identifies the fear behind these reactions. Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, she suggests a route past this limiting response and toward a more equitable, imaginative, and free society.Fear, Nussbaum…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago.



Preface



Religion: A Time of Anxiety and Suspicion



Fear: A Narcissistic Emotion



First Principles: Equal Respect for Conscience



The Mote in My Brother's Eye: Impartiality and the Examined Life



Inner Eyes: Respect and the Sympathetic Imagination



The Case of Park51



Overcoming the Politics of Fear


Notes


Index