Resisting Throwaway Culture : How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People

Camosy, Charles

ISBN 10: 1565486870 / ISBN 13: 9781565486874

Published by New City Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Resisting Throwaway Culture : How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People
• Publisher: New City Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565486870
• ISBN 13: 9781565486874
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

2020 Resource of the Year - Association of Catholic Publishers.
Winner of the 2020 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers (General Interest category).
This is a book about hope in the midst of a polarized culture. Camosy begins with a hopeful starting point in the midst of a crumbling US political culture: two of every three Americans constitute an exhausted majority who reject right/left polarization and are open to alternative viewpoints. Especially at this time of realignment, we have been given a unique moment to put aside the frothy, angsty political debates and think harder about our deepest values. A Consistent Life Ethic, especially one which embraces Pope Francis' challenge to resist throwaway culture, has the capacity to unite people who for the last several decades imagined themselves in a polarized culture war. On issues ranging from hook-up culture, reproductive technology, abortion, euthanasia, poverty, immigration, treatment of animals, and mass incarceration, this book articulates a new moral vision in which a culture of encounter and hospitality replaces a consumer culture in which the most vulnerable get used and discarded as so much trash. At bottom, Camosy offers readers a golden opportunity to dialogue about what kinds of values should serve as the foundation for a new political culture.

About the Author

Charles C. Camosy is associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University. His work on ethics and policy moves beyond stale and lazy arguments which artificially pit liberals and conservatives against each other. Instead, Camosy finds common ground by unpacking the real complexities of some of today's most passionately debated issues.