Cancel culture, social consciousness, hate speech, self-censorship: the control and politicization of language in public arenas has once again emerged as a real battleground in recent years.
Starting from an analysis of a range of phenomena – immigration, multiculturalism, social disintegration, the rise of new cultural elites, and the “decline” of the nation-state – Jonathan Friedman proposes in this book an anthropological reading of political correctness as a particular form of social reality and a symptom ofProfound transformations that have long affected Western societies.
A masterful critique of the moral system in which we are immersed and a valuable attempt to describe its historical and cultural dynamics and the ideological shifts that have contributed to its emergence, with its claims to guide debate by defining what can and should not be discussed.
