{"product_id":"the-place-of-prejudice-9780674726840","title":"The Place of Prejudice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe associate prejudice with ignorance and bigotry and consider it a source of injustice. Can prejudice have a legitimate place in moral and political judgment? Adam Sandel shows that prejudice, properly understood, is not an obstacle to clear thinking but an essential aspect of it. The aspiration to reason without preconceptions is misguided.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable, deeply humanizing book… [\u003cb\u003eSandel\u003c\/b\u003e] points out that those who claim to have rid themselves of prejudice are, without exception, kidding themselves, even setting themselves up to be more susceptible to prejudice by creating a fictitious realm in which they are immune to it… Today researchers are assembling an ever-longer list of what they consider cognitive biases, which are apparently the product of a jumble of cognitive mechanisms that evolution has snatched up and crammed uncomfortably together. A new philosophical effort is needed to account for the findings of this science, and to challenge its shortcomings. Efforts like the one undertaken in \u003ci\u003eThe Place of Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e will be vital to this task. -- Ari N. Schulman * New Atlantis *\u003cbr\u003eEven those familiar with the points it makes will enjoy the sweep of its review across the history of philosophy and take pleasure in…its eloquence. -- Georgia Warnke * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam Sandel\u003c\/b\u003e’s book presents ‘the prejudice against prejudice’ and then the case against it in a clear and eloquent manner. The case still needs to be made to English-speaking audiences in a way that can be widely understood, and this text can do it. It would serve a great need in today’s Anglophone philosophical world. -- Charles Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eA Secular Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping, ambitious, original, and provocative work. It takes on not a thinker or a theory, but a way of thinking that represents the achievement of modernity and the mark of intellectual and moral integrity: the capacity to liberate ourselves from prejudice and to see things objectively. Prejudice in fact is inescapable, on this account, and is a necessary starting point for practical reason. This is an ambitious book that makes good on its ambition. -- Russell Muirhead, author of \u003ci\u003eJust Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is bold and invigorating. Sandel takes aim at one of the bedrock creeds of Western modernity: that genuine rationality requires the dismissal of all cultural, religious, and other contextual presuppositions—that is, the exodus from ‘prejudice’ (pejoratively construed). As is well known, Hans-Georg Gadamer in his \u003ci\u003eTruth and Method\u003c\/i\u003e had famously denounced the modern ‘prejudice against prejudice.’ Although circulating among some philosophers, Gadamer’s challenge was rarely taken to heart by social and political theorists—until Sandel’s book…There is a plethora of important insights and valuable situated judgments which readers will be able to savor in the\u003cbr\u003ecourse of a careful reading of the text… No doubt, the main achievement of the text is the retrieval of prejudgment or pre-understanding as a precondition of knowledge and action.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Fred Dallmayr * Political Theory *\u003cbr\u003ePolitical theorists interested in deliberation, reasoning, and social differences will find much to learn from this argument; and the book as a whole is most certainly an important contribution to ongoing discussions about justice and fairness in pluralistic societies. -- Lars Tønder * Perspectives on Politics *","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49526054977879,"sku":"9780674726840","price":42.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674726840.jpg?v=1731862732","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-place-of-prejudice-9780674726840","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}