The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad

ISBN-13: 9780306462115 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 265 str.

Melvyn L. Fein

Opis

This volume demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behaviour and advocates what the author calls critical idealism as a way of life. It discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and medicalist movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behaviour in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action.

Spis treści

Preface. I. Idealism on Trial. II. In the Name of Morality. III. Messianic Stickball. IV. Dreams or Nightmares. V. Extreme I: Radical Feminism. VI. Extreme II: Radical Civil Rights. VII. Extreme III: Radical Medicalism. VIII. Luminosity Blindness. IX. No Respect. Bibliography.