WHICH THEORY OF COMMUNICATION IS “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”?
WHICH THEORY OF COMMUNICATION IS “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS”?
Author(s): Michael Nnamdi KonyeSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Theory, Politics and communication
Published by: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
Keywords: Cultural Marxism;68-er Bewegung;kyriarchy;Gutmensch;politiquement correcte;Kotobagari;Allan Bloom;McCarthyism;Mao Zedong;Max Horkheimer;Jürgen Habermas
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on ‟political correctness”, which has become a late 20th century catch-phrase in Western European and North American liberal democracies but also has found currency in the political climate of the Asian and Eastern countries. A historical and multi-cultural review is intended as an introduction to a broader philosophical analysis of the Marxist backgrounds of political correctness and its neo-Marxist theoretical correctives in Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action. My aim is to draw out both the educational and cultural implications of laying out the ethos of contemporary discourse on the foundations of the evolving dynamics of the rhetoric of political correctness.
Journal: The Journal of Education, Culture, and Society
- Issue Year: 7/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 53-74
- Page Count: 22
- Language: English
