Human Diversity and the Culture Wars: A Philosophical Perspective on Contemporary Cultural Conflict

by Philip E. Devine

Book Overview

Raising the war on political correctness to a new and higher intellectual level, Philip Devine sheds fresh light on the whole question of cultural standards and the fashionable notion of multiculturalism. While acknowledging the diversity of ways of life and the differing belief systems that arise from and justify those ways of life, the author attacks the current exploitation of diversity to justify a militantly intolerant relativism. His wide-ranging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275952053
• ISBN13: 9780275952051
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"