2019 Uehiro Lecture 1: What Has Gone Wrong? Populist politics and the mobilization of fear and resentment
I diagnose the deterioration of public discourse regarding basic facts to the rise of populist politics, which is powered by the activation of identity-based fear and resentment of other groups. Populist politics “hears” the factual claims of other groups as insults to the groups it mobilizes, and thereby replaces factual inquiry with modes of discourse, such as denial, derision, and slander, designed to defend populist groups against criticism and whip up hostility toward rival groups. Nonpopulist groups, in turn, add fuel to the fire by blaming and shaming those who seem stubbornly and ignorantly attached to false claims in defiance of evidence.
Date:
14 October 2019, 15:00 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2019)
Venue:
Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details:
East School
Speaker:
Professor Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
Organising department:
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Organiser:
Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Organiser contact email address:
rachel.gaminiratne@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Part of:
2019 Uehiro Lectures: Can We Talk? Communicating Moral Concern in an Era of Polarized Politics
Topics:
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://bookwhen.com/uehiro
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Rachel Gaminiratne
