Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics

by Steven C Roach and Steven C. Roach

Decency remains one of the most prevalent yet least understood terms in today's political discourse. In evoking respect, kindness, courage, integrity, reason, and tolerance, it has long expressed an unquestioned duty and belief in promoting and protecting the dignity of all persons. Today this unquestioned belief is in crisis. Tribalism and identity politics have both hindered and threatened its moral stability and efficacy. Still, many continue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472131621
• ISBN13: 9780472131624
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"