On Diversity The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era
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Full Title

On Diversity The Eclipse of the Individual in a Global Era
Author(s)

Russell Jacoby
Edition
ISBN

9781609809805, 9781609809799, 9781644210765
Publisher

Seven Stories Press (RHP)
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A brilliant examination of a timely concept from one of the nation’s great public intellectuals. Diversity. You’ve heard the term everywhere–in the news, in the universities, at the television awards shows. Maybe even in the corporate world, where diversity initiatives have become de rigueur. But what does the term actually mean? Where does it come from? What are its intellectual precedents? Moreover, how do we square our love affair with diversity with the fact that the world seems to be becoming more and more, well, homogeneous? With a lucid, straightforward prose that rises above the noise, one of America’s greatest intellectual gadflies, Russell Jacoby, takes these questions squarely on. Discussing diversity (or lack thereof) in language, fashion, childhood experience, political structure, and the history of ideas, Jacoby offers in plain language a surprising and penetrating analysis of our cultural moment. In an age where our public thinkers seem to be jumping over one another to have the latest correct opinion, Jacoby offers a most dangerous, and liberating, injunction: to stop and think.

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