Ebook: Multiculturalism and the politics of guilt: toward a secular theocracy
Author: Gottfried Paul Edward
- Tags: Behavior modification--United States, Multiculturalism--United States, Multikulturelle Gesellschaft, Multikulturelle Gesellschaft, SWD-ID: 42141515, Pluralism (Social sciences)--United States, Political Correctness, Political Correctness, SWD-ID: 43929916, Political correctness--United States, Political culture--United States, USA, SWD-ID: 40787047, Westliche Welt, SWD-ID: 40792377, Political culture -- United States, Multiculturalism -- United States, Behavior modification -- United States, Political cor
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: University of Missouri Press
- City: Columbia;USA
- Edition: 1. paperback print
- Language: English
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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.
Gottfried argues that the West's relentless celebrations of diversity have resulted in the downgrading of the once dominant Western culture. The moral rationale of government has become the consciousness-raising of a presumed majority population. While welfare states continue to provide entitlements and fulfill the other material programs of older welfare regimes, they have ceased to make qualitative leaps in the direction of social democracy. For the new political elite, nationalization and income redistributions have become less significant than controlling the speech and...