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The Force of Prejudice On Racism and Its Doubles Pierre-André Taguieff |
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$75.00 Cloth |
A clear look at the nature of racist thought and how to fight against it. Can humanity escape segregating behavior or master the tendency to exclusion? Where does the force of prejudice come from? How might one conceive the philosophical foundations of an effective antiracism? Pursuing these questions, Pierre-André Taguieff puts forward a powerful thesis: that racism has evolved from an argument about races, naturalizing inequality between "biologically" defined groups on the basis of fear of the other, to an argument about cultures, naturalizing historical differences and justifying exclusion. Correspondingly, he shows how antiracism must adopt the strategy that fits the variety of racism it opposes. Looking at racial and racist theories one by one and then at their antiracist counterparts, Taguieff traces an intellectual genealogy of differentialist and inegalitarian ways of thinking. Already viewed as an essential work of reference in France, The Force of Prejudice is an invaluable tool for identifying and understanding both racism and its antidote in our day. “Reinvigorates the debate on racism. The book is well researched and offers a detailed and exhaustive scholarly and popular range of racist and antiracist discourse. Invaluable for individuals who want to examine themselves about racism.” —International Criminal Justice Review “The work of a philosopher and a political scholar, The Force of Prejudice offers rich information for each of these two fields. Pierre-André Taguieff reworks, step by step, the progress of different attempts to theorize racist prejudice and its complementary double, antiracism. His choice is that of an open universality, where the duties and obligations relating to humans disappear under their ‘rights,’ and where inhumanity will be banished.” —Le Monde Pierre-André Taguieff, philosopher and historian of political ideas, is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. Hassan Melehy is assistant professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut. 464 pages | 10 figures | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2001 |
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