The limits of idealism : when good intentions go bad /
This book demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behavior and advocates what the author calls `critical idealism' as a way of life. The author discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and `medicalist' movements as examples of the contemporary drift towar...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
[1999]
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| Series: | Clinical sociology.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behavior and advocates what the author calls `critical idealism' as a way of life. The author discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and `medicalist' movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behavior in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585296014 (electronic bk.) 9780585296012 (electronic bk.) |