Political Correctness - 9780816624768

Political CorrectnessA Response from the Cultural Left\nAuthor(s): Richard Feldstein\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816624768, 978-0816624768\nSynopsis\nA hard-hitting assessment of the way the Right has used this divisive issue.\n\nIf our so-called culture war seems all on the side of the Right, theres a reason. Its all in their heads. From the beleaguered-some would say baffled-silence on the Left, this book at long last emerges with a devastating diagnosis of the debate over political correctness. \n\nWritten with refreshing clarity and wit, Political Correctness describes a cultural nonphenomenon brought into being by the desires of neoconservatives. Nostalgic for the simple moral logic of the Cold War, the conservative Right has created an evil empire within and conferred upon its enemies-from multiculturalists to postmodernists and poststructuralists-a McCarthyite agenda that dema.