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Post-Ethical Society : The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular by Douglas V. Porpora and Alexander G. Nikolaev and Julia Hagemann May and Alexander Jenkins (Authors) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Post-Ethical Society : The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular about?
We’ve all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interrogation in terms of efficacy and justify drone strikes in terms of retribution and deterrence. But the mainstream secular media rarely addresses the morality of these choices, leaving us to ask individually: Is this right? In this singular examination of the American discourse over war and torture, Douglas V. Porpora, Alexander Nikolaev, Julia Hagemann May, and Alexander Jenkins investigate the opinion pages of American newspapers, television commentary, and online discussion groups to offer the first empirical study of the national conversation about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib a year later. Post-Ethical Society is not just another shot fired in the ongoing culture war between conservatives and liberals, but a pensive and ethically engaged reflection of America’s feelings about itself and our actions as a nation. And while many writers and commentators have opined about our moral place
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Douglas V. Porpora and Alexander G. Nikolaev and Julia Hagemann May and Alexander Jenkins (Authors)
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226062495
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Political Science, Sociology
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