Format:
1 Online-Ressource (216 p.)
ISBN:
9780691239422
Content:
Why “aporophobia”—rejection of the poor—is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight itIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor people. Because we can’t recognize something we can’t name, she proposes the term “aporophobia” for the pervasive exclusion, stigmatization, and humiliation of the poor, which cuts across xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, and other prejudices. Passionate and powerful, Aporophobia examines where this nearly invisible daily attack on poor people comes from, why it is so harmful, and how we can fight it.Aporophobia traces this universal prejudice’s neurological and social origins and its wide-ranging, pernicious consequences, from unnoticed hate crimes to aporophobia’s threat to democracy. It sheds new light on today’s rampant anti-immigrant feeling, which Cortina argues is better understood as aporophobia than xenophobia. We reject migrants not because of their origin, race, or ethnicity but because they seem to bring problems while offering nothing of value. And this is unforgivable in societies that enshrine economic exchange as the supreme value while forgetting that we can’t create communities worth living in without dignity, generosity, and compassion for all. Yet there is hope, and Cortina explains how we can overcome the moral, social, and political disaster of aporophobia through education and democratic institutions, and how poverty itself can be eradicated if we choose.In a world of migrant crises and economic inequality, Aporophobia is essential for understanding and confronting one of the most serious problems of the twenty-first century
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface to the English Edition
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 A Scourge without a Name
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Chapter 2 Hate Crimes toward the Poor
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Chapter 3 Hate Speech
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Chapter 4 Our Brain Is Aporophobic
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Chapter 5 Conscience and Reputation
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Chapter 6 Moral Bioenhancement
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Chapter 7 Erradicating Poverty, Reducing Inequality
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Chapter 8 Cosmopolitan Hospitality
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691205526
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cortina Orts, Adela, 1947 - Aporophobia Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780691205526
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780691239422
