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Social Identities and Social Justice: Reconceiving Ethics and Politics in the Wake of Wokeism

Social Identities and Social Justice: Reconceiving Ethics and Politics in the Wake of Wokeism

Franke, William

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PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1680533819
ISBN13: 9781680533811
Publisher: Academica Press
Published: May 15 2025
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The revolutionary upheaval currently sweeping across Western democracies on parade under the banner term woke calls for rethinking the foundations of ethics and politics. The social justice movement challenges us to fundamentally reconceive our being with one another in society and to re-embrace our profoundest traditions. Focus on identities, however, has become divisive and vexatious. In Social Identities and Social Justice, William Franke indicates a way to exit from the current impasse empoisoning politics in Western democracies by thinking the concept of identity through to its grounds in the non-identity (or undelimited human potential) that all share and that unites rather than divides us. The traditions of negative theology (admission of ignorance of God) and apophasis (self-critical unsaying of one's own certainties) are leveraged for outlining a truly relational approach to public discourse. We must open our concepts of mutually exclusive identities towards their infinite truth rooted in our unlimited interconnectedness. Doing so, we open our ideas beyond their finite content and open ourselves to building a world together.

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