On diversity : the eclipse of the individual in a global era

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Label

On diversity : the eclipse of the individual in a global era

Title remainder

the eclipse of the individual in a global era

Statement of responsibility

Russell Jacoby

Creator

• Jacoby, Russell

Author

• Jacoby, Russell

Subject

• Electronic books
• Globalization -- Social aspects -- United States
• Social systems
• Individualism -- United States
• Cultural pluralism -- United States

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

305.800973

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult