Abstract

This introduction explores the relationship between Law and Political Correctness (PC), considering different stages (from culture wars on campus to narrative outsider jurisprudences), as well as diverse (contextually instable and often contradictory) narrative webs. This reflective path opens three main different problems: the first concerns the way how the sensitivity to political correctness is programmatically (contingently) pursued through statutory law; the second identifies the difficulties which plurality and fragmentation create, when we consider Law’s vocation for comparability; the third denounces specific institutionalizing procedures and social effects associable to the culture of political correctness. Acknowledging that the integrated discussion of these themes, in their juridical systematic implications, is fundamentally encore à faire, the last part of the text introduces in detail the seven chapters which follow, highlighting the stimulant plurality of perspectives and approaches which they manifest.

Highlights

  • Concerning the possibility of juridically relevant responses, is the culture and/or the morality of so-called political correctness a significant societal challenge? an answer in the affirmative seems obvious, the relevance to be taken into account is not, as linear as it seems

  • Whereas the Political Correctness (PC) formula opens itself up to a spectrum of diverse contexts of signification and performance —condemning a plausible global reconstitution of its thematic field to the incorporation of tensions that cannot be resolved, the treatment given to Law and Legal Thinking, when it does not reduce them to an instrumental position, allows them only a very concentrated role — as if they intervened exclusively under the mask of the free speech principle or in the semantic and pragmatic context surrounding the discussion of this principle and its specific weight or limits

  • That contextual instability, combined with this reductive concentration, gives us an irresistible opportunity to try out an exercise of law in literature — this one revisiting Philipp Roth’s brilliant The Human Stain (2000), as well as to return to Mark Tushnet’s exemplary essay; and certainly, and not by chance, since both Roth’s novel and Tushnet’s essay consider the practices of PC whilst exploring the same stage: North American university campuses in the last decade of the twentieth century

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Introduction

Concerning the possibility of juridically relevant responses, is the culture and/or the morality of so-called political correctness a significant societal challenge? an answer in the affirmative seems obvious, the relevance to be taken into account is not, as linear as it seems.

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