 | Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion: How Popular Culture Can Defuse Intractable Differences Subjects: Religion and politics -- United States; Popular culture -- United States; Emotions -- Political aspects; Political psychology; Political science -- Philosophy; Jeffrey Israel offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. He explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives. Jeffrey Israel is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and the Jewish Studies Program at Williams College. Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, most recently The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis (2018), and the winner of the 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. |
