The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 1 / 2001  
         
  Article:   CULTURAL POLITICS AND THE QUESTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.

Authors:  RICHARD RORTY. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The term “cultural politics” is a useful description of arguments about what words to use. When we say that Frenchmen should stop referring to Germans as “Boches”, or that white people should stop referring to black people as “niggers”, we are practicing cultural politics. We are saying that our socio-political goals—increasing the degree of tolerance that certain groups of people have for one another, in the hope of decreasing the amount of violence and cruelty in the world—will be promoted by abandoning certain linguistic practices. Our opponents, whose socio-political goals may include the permanent subjugation of blacks by whites, or the permanent suspicion of Germany by France, practice cultural politics by insisting on using the very words we think ought to be dropped from the language.  
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page