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Wolfe, Alan

 
9780226905167: Marginalized in the Middle
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ISBN 10: 0226905160 ISBN 13: 9780226905167
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Sinopsis

In this text Alan Wolfe moves from the "golden age" of social criticism of the 1940s and 1950s to the social sciences of today, all in an effort to understand how and why social criticism should be done at all. Addressing volatile social issues such as gender, pornography, race, welfare, immigration, and schooling, the author examines the ills of American society in the 1990s.

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Acerca del autor

Alan Wolfe is University Professor at Boston University, having served previously as Dean of the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research.

De la contraportada

Addressing volatile social issues such as gender, pornography, race, welfare, immigration, and schooling, Wolfe examines the ills of American society in the 1990s. Through readings of Andrew Hacker, Elijah Anderson, and Christopher Jencks, for example, he offers a penetrating critique of our thinking about race. Similarly, his discussion of gender and feminism questions whether feminists have sacrificed the concerns of women for the sake of theory. Wolfe uses these and other readings to illustrate the paradoxes of social criticism. Exposing the weaknesses of mere polemics, Wolfe shows how some critics sacrifice fruitful social criticism for the sake of preserving political commitments. He concludes that social criticism does not lie within the boundaries of either left-wing or right-wing ideas, but rather is connected to a broad understanding of liberalism. Wolfe shows that it is possible to be critical and fair at the same time, and fair at the same time, and pinpoints exactly what is at stake in these controversial debates. This immensely readable book illustrates the power of social criticism to enlarge discussion of issues at the heart of democracy today.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226905160
ISBN 13 
9780226905167
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
299
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