The force of prejudice [electronic resource] : on racism and its doubles / Pierre-Andre Taguieff ; translated and edited by Hassan Melehy.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Series: Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 13.Publication details: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2001.Description: xii, 410 p. ; 24 cmUniform titles: Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.8 21
LOC classification:
  • HT1521 .T313 2001eb
Contents:
Introduction. Doubts about antiracism. Critique of antiracist reason. Heterophobia, heterophilia : the definitional antinomy "racism" : ordinary uses and scholarly uses, from the word to the notion. Births, functionings, and avatars of the word racism. An ideal type : "racism" as an ideological construction -- Genealogy of the dogmatic critique of prejudices. The theories of prejudice and the meanings of racism. Antiracism and antiprejudice ideology -- Racisms and antiracisms : paradoxes, analyses, models, theory. On racism : models, ideal types, variations, paradoxes. The specter of mtissage: the mixophobic hypothesis. On antiracism : ideal type, ideological corruption, perverse effects. Elements of a theory of ideological debate -- Beyond racism. Pessimism : philanthropy in spite of humanity. Ethics : the infinite of the law above the law? Republican metapolitics : Universalism or barbarism? Universalism without barbarism?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-404) and index.

Introduction. Doubts about antiracism. Critique of antiracist reason. Heterophobia, heterophilia : the definitional antinomy "racism" : ordinary uses and scholarly uses, from the word to the notion. Births, functionings, and avatars of the word racism. An ideal type : "racism" as an ideological construction -- Genealogy of the dogmatic critique of prejudices. The theories of prejudice and the meanings of racism. Antiracism and antiprejudice ideology -- Racisms and antiracisms : paradoxes, analyses, models, theory. On racism : models, ideal types, variations, paradoxes. The specter of mtissage: the mixophobic hypothesis. On antiracism : ideal type, ideological corruption, perverse effects. Elements of a theory of ideological debate -- Beyond racism. Pessimism : philanthropy in spite of humanity. Ethics : the infinite of the law above the law? Republican metapolitics : Universalism or barbarism? Universalism without barbarism?

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