Postmodernism and Public Policy
Subtitle: Reframing Religion, Culture, Education, Sexuality, Class, Race, Politics, and the Economy (Suny Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780791451663
Subjects: Postmodernism; Political aspects; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy; Religion; Postmodern theology; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Political; Ethics; Christianity and politics
Description: "Postmodernism and Public Policy shows how a postmodern Christianity can contribute positively to thinking about religious and cultural pluralism, and how this can give direction to the educational enterprise. It proposes ways of understanding sex, gender, and race that take diversity seriously without lapsing into a debilitating relativism that inhibits political action. Arguing for a shift from individualism to thinking of persons-in-community, it proposes that the world be organized from the bottom up in communities of communities, and spells out what this implies for the political and economic orders and the relationship between them. Cobb shows that formulations on all these topics can be coherently interconnected and he develops the implications of such thinking for some specific ethical and political issues that now trouble the United States, such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and homosexuality."--BOOK JACKET.