{"id":6025,"date":"2016-11-21T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/21\/reading-now-paul-gottfried-on-multiculturalism-and-the-politics-of-guilt\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T15:08:46","slug":"reading-now-paul-gottfried-on-multiculturalism-and-the-politics-of-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/21\/reading-now-paul-gottfried-on-multiculturalism-and-the-politics-of-guilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Now: Paul Gottfried on Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Gottfried, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy<\/a>, University of Missouri Press, 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n

Excellent background to current developments.  I may be missing something, but the subtitle seems poorly chosen.  'Toward X,' like the German Zur X<\/em>,' signals that the author is for X, that he advocates it.  But I take it that Gottfried is against secular theocracy.  Call me a quibbler and a pedant if you like.  A couple of quotations to whet your appetite:<\/span><\/p>\n

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European nation-states have become "feminized" bureaucracies, heavily staffed by women engaged in feminist politics. States no longer talk about heroic pasts nor evoke the kind of national loyalties that had marked them well into the last century. (128)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No doubt, which is why the defeat of Hillary the Feminizer, she who is so concerned for 'the children,' except for the not yet born ones, is such a theme for rejoicing and thanksgiving this Thanksgiving.<\/span><\/p>\n

The following passage strikes me as prescient by 14 years:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The by now feared populist movements also feature leaders who claim to speak both to and for historical nations or besieged regionalists, against media-administrative elites. A cult of the leader seems inevitably attached to all such movements, partly related to the emphasis they place on circumventing ordinary party politics and enacting plebiscitary democracy. [. . .] Depicting the opponents of populism as "liberal' and the populists as unreconstructed Nazis or fascists is dishonest and misleading. [. . .]  the confrontation that has erupted is not between liberals and antiliberals bur between two postliberal concepts of democracy, one, managerial-multicultueal, and the other, plebiscitary national or regional. (122)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is as if Gottfried saw the face of Donald  J. Trump in his crystal ball back in 2002.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a review of Gottfried's book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paul Gottfried, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy, University of Missouri Press, 2002. Excellent background to current developments.  I may be missing something, but the subtitle seems poorly chosen.  'Toward X,' like the German Zur X,' signals that the author is for X, that he advocates it.  But I take it … Continue reading “Reading Now: Paul Gottfried on Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,289,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibliophilia","category-books","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}