>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 11:58:51 -0400
>From: jnarveso@watarts.UWaterloo.ca (Jan Narveson)
>Subject: Book Abstract
>Cc: Marilyn Friedman <friedman@artsci.wustl.edu>

Thanks to Scott Arnold and Kurt Wickman for their book abstracts. I too
have one to contribute:

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
For and Against

By Marilyn Friedman and Jan Narveson

In Political Correctness:  For and Against, two prominent philosophers
engage each other in a forthright debate over some of the centrally
disputed topics in the controversy now being waged on college campuses
across the nation In her lead essay supporting "political correctness,"
Marilyn Friedman challenges the critical response to hate speech codes,
disputes the supposed preeminence of the Western canon, and champions "deep
multiculturalism" over a "shallow global diversity" approach.  She also
argues that a "politically correct" perspective need not abandon the
concept of truth even while recognizing its political vulnerabilities, and
she defends feminism and feminists against widespread distortion and
caricature.  Jan Narveson, in his lead essay criticizing "political
correctness," argues that the kind of equality of person envisaged in
"old-fashioned" or "classical" liberalism is the genuine article.  Despite
good intentions, he argues, "politically correct" policies will increase
the amount of arbitrary power wielded over us by an essentially unthinking
state, and this will be worse for everyone -- including the allegedly
oppressed persons in whose interests these programs are advocated.
Friedman and Narveson conclude the volume with direct replies to each
other's positions.

Contents:       Preface:         Codes, Canons, Correctness, and Feminism,
Marilyn Friedman;  Politics, Ethics and "Political Correctness", Jan
Narveson;  Reply to Narveson, Marilyn Friedman;  Reply to Friedman, Jan
Narveson.

Marilyn Friedman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington
University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Jan Narveson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo In
Ontario.

Published by Rowman and Littlefield, December 1994 -- 160 pages
ISBN 0-8476-7986-l                      $l8.95 (paper)
ISBN 0-8476-7985-3                      $56.50 (cloth)
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