Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity When We Should Not Get Along [Paperback]

Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity  is an attempt to provide criteria for when it is both morally necessary and politically expedient to break with civic harmony social cohesion in the name of a higher social justice.1. Introduction: Why We Should Try to Get Along Before Not Getting Along: Cosmopolitanism, Moral Clarity and Reasonable Disagreements 2. Leave My Genitals Alone: Same-Sex Marriage and the Nature of Moral Values 3. Hiding from Humanity: The Burka, the Face and the Annihilation of Human Identity 4. Anti-Assimilationism, Xenophobia, Misanthropy and the Logic of Contagion 5. Multiculturalism and Its Collusion with Racial and Ethnic Apartheid: 6. Educational Multiculturalism and Epistemological Counterculturalism: Towards a Moral De-Ratification of Their Agenda (Part II)

Jason Hill invites us to reject a cultural defence of illiberal practices; he urges that the public acknowledgement of same sex love be equal to that of opposite sex love; he entreats a return to emancipatory feminist concerns about imposed dress codes; and he asks us to replace multicultural separatisms with a refreshed universalism. Hill links a readiness to explore these questions to the generation of cosmopolitan friendships that place hope and solidarity in our shared humanity. This is a daring and important contribution to a field of debate about how we should live with and talk to each other. - Glynis Cousin, Professor, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity is an attack on multiculturalism in the name of cosmopolitan social democracy. Hill argues that individuals and not groups have rights and that the radical left has over-determined identity by neglecting the dignity of the self. Hill calls for a radical insurrectionism against homophobia, racism, xenophobia, and oppressive cultural practices such as the burka for women and the preservation of indigenous cultures that limit the freelc-