Entering the Moral Middle Ground - Who Is Afraid of the Grey Wolf?

"Contemporary society needs the recognition of a moral middle ground, where human behavior can be evaluated as permissible, understandable, or even valuable. As a counterforce to polarization and divisive politics, an identity model is proposed in which individual and group identities are transcended by a human and ecological identity"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Dialogical Self Theory and the process of positioning; 2. Embracing bad as good via internalization; 3. Rejecting bad via externalization; 4. The vitality of the moral middle ground; 5. Contradiction as intrinsic to the multiplicity of the self; 6. Multi-level identity and the moral middle ground: toward a human and ecological identity.

About the author

Hubert J. M. Hermans is Emeritus Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He is internationally recognized as the founder of Dialogical Self Theory (DST). He is also the Honorary President of the International Society for Dialogical Science and he was decorated as Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion for exceptional scientific achievements.

Summary

Contemporary society needs the recognition of a moral middle ground, where human behavior can be evaluated as permissible, understandable, or even valuable. As a counterforce to polarization and divisive politics, an identity model is proposed in which individual and group identities are transcended by a human and ecological identity.

Foreword

Introduces the concept of a moral middle ground to combat the effects of toxic polarization and divisive identity politics.

Product details

• Authors: Hubert J. M. Hermans, Hubert J. M. (Radboud Universiteit Nijmeg Hermans
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009432009
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943200-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Possibility Studies; Cambridge Series on Possibility Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, Child & developmental psychology, Social issues & processes, Social, group or collective psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Social and ethical issues