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Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice : A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination, Paperback / softback Book

Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice : A Psychoanalytical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Dynamics of Social Exclusion and Discrimination Paperback / softback

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This book helps us understand the current resurgence of social prejudice against ethnic minority groups, the logics of scapegoating and the resulting violence.Our time is characterised by a growth in expressed hostility and violence towards people who are perceived as 'others'.

Hatred towards and discrimination against minorities is on the rise.

This book presents a new understanding of prejudice, racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, islamophobia, sexism and homophobia.

It combines philosophy with psychoanalytic thinking, sociology and psycho-social studies, analysing the unconscious elements of social processes.

The author makes a case for framing a questioning of prejudice, not in terms of normality versus pathology or deviance, but in what is socially unconscious.

Hypocrisy and double standards are inherent in our social practices, reflecting the contradictions present in our thinking about these issues: that we both believe and do not believe in equality.

Thus this study takes account of conflicts between theory and practice, layers of implicit- and explicitness, pre- and unconscious experience and the power differentials that shape these constellations.

There is no neutral point of view from which prejudice can be addressed.

The chapters in this study approach the problem of how to understand prejudice from different angles, aiming at ways of enabling listening to voices that are rarely heard.

It questions how to reshape society so as to make room for people who appear to embody so-called contemptible qualities - for extension of respect across differences and inequalities.

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