The force of prejudice : on racism and its doubles
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The force of prejudice : on racism and its doubles
（Contradictions of modernity, v. 13）
University of Minnesota Press, c2001
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La force du préjugé : essai sur le racisme et ses doubles
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Originally published: Éditions la Découverte, c1987
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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-Andre 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.
Table of 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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