ISBN号:9780593493182
书名:The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
作者:Yascha Mounk
出版日期:2023-09-26T00:00:00+00:00
英文简介:
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Financial Times, Inc.
, Prospect Magazine, and The Conversation “The most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted .
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Mounk has told the story of the Great Awokening better than any other writer who has attempted to make sense of it.
” –The Washington Post “An intellectual tour de force about the origins of identity politics and the threat it presents to genuine, honest, old-fashioned liberalism.
” –Bret Stephens, The New York Times “Among the most insightful and important books written in the last decade on American democracy and its current torments, because it also shows us a way out of the trap.
” –Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind, and coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind “Outstanding.
” –David Brooks, The New York Times One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and social justice that is rapidly transforming America–and explains why it will fail to accomplish its noble goals.
For much of history, societies have violently oppressed ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities.
It is no surprise that many who passionately believe in social justice came to believe that members of marginalized groups need to take pride in their identity to resist injustice.
But over the past decades, a healthy appreciation for the culture and heritage of minority groups has transformed into a counterproductive obsession with group identity in all its forms.
A new ideology aiming to place each person’s matrix of identities at the center of social, cultural, and political life has quickly become highly influential.
It stifles discourse, vilifies mutual influence as cultural appropriation, denies that members of different groups can truly understand one another, and insists that the way governments treat their citizens should depend on the color of their skin.
This, Yascha Mounk argues, is the identity trap.
Though those who battle for these ideas are full of good intentions, they will ultimately make it harder to achieve progress toward the genuine equality we desperately need.
Mounk has built his acclaimed scholarly career on being one of the first to warn of the risks right-wing populists pose to American democracy.
But, he shows, those on the left and center who are stuck in the identity trap are now inadvertent allies to the MAGA movement.
In The Identity Trap, Mounk provides the most ambitious and comprehensive account to date of the origins, consequences, and limitations of so-called “wokeness.
” He is the first to show how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory forged the “identity synthesis” that conquered many college campuses by 2010.
He lays out how a relatively marginal set of ideas came to gain tremendous influence in business, media, and government by 2020.
He makes a nuanced philosophical case for why the application of these ideas to areas from education to public policy is proving to be so deeply counterproductive–and why universal, humanist values can best serve the vital goal of true equality.
In explaining the huge political and cultural transformations of the past decade, The Identity Trap provides truth and clarity where they are needed most.
中文简介:
被《经济学人》、《金融时报》、《展望》杂志和《对话》评为年度最佳图书“迄今为止关于这一转变的最全面、最合理的故事……蒙克讲述了大觉醒的故事比任何其他试图理解它的作家都要好。
” ——《华盛顿邮报》“关于身份政治的起源及其对真正、诚实、老式自由主义构成的威胁的知识杰作。
” ——布雷特·斯蒂芬斯，《纽约时报》 “这是过去十年中关于美国民主及其当前痛苦的最有洞察力和最重要的书籍之一，因为它还向我们展示了摆脱困境的出路。
” ——乔纳森·海特，《正义的心灵》一书的作者，也是《美国心灵的溺爱》一书的合著者。
——大卫·布鲁克斯，《纽约时报》我们的一位领先的公共知识分子追溯了一系列关于身份和社会正义的思想的起源，这些思想正在迅速改变美国，并解释了为什么它无法实现其崇高目标。
在历史的大部分时间里，社会都对种族、宗教和性少数群体进行暴力压迫。
毫不奇怪，许多热衷于社会正义的人开始相信边缘化群体的成员需要为自己的身份感到自豪，以抵制不公正。
但在过去的几十年里，对少数群体文化和遗产的健康欣赏已经转变为对各种形式的群体身份的适得其反的痴迷。
一种旨在将每个人的身份矩阵置于社会、文化和政治生活中心的新意识形态很快就产生了巨大的影响力。
它扼杀言论，将相互影响诋毁为文化挪用，否认不同群体的成员能够真正相互理解，并坚持认为政府对待公民的方式应取决于他们的肤色。
亚沙·蒙克认为，这是身份陷阱。
尽管那些为这些想法而奋斗的人充满了良好的意愿，但他们最终将使我们更难实现我们迫切需要的真正平等。
蒙克是第一个警告右翼民粹主义者对美国民主构成风险的人之一，他的学术生涯因此而备受赞誉。
但是，他表示，那些陷入身份陷阱的左翼和中间派人士现在无意中成为了 MAGA 运动的盟友。
在《身份陷阱》中，蒙克对所谓“觉醒”的起源、后果和局限性提供了迄今为止最雄心勃勃、最全面的描述。
他是第一个展示后现代主义、后殖民主义和批判种族理论如何形成“身份综合体”并在 2010 年征服许多大学校园的人。
他阐述了一组相对边缘的思想如何在商业、媒体和商业领域获得巨大影响力。
他提出了一个细致入微的哲学案例，解释了为什么将这些思想应用于从教育到公共政策的领域被证明会产生如此严重的适得其反的效果，以及为什么普遍的人文主义价值观最能服务于真正平等的重要目标。
在解释过去十年巨大的政治和文化变革时，《身份陷阱》在最需要的地方提供了真相和清晰度。
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