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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Words and Distinctions for the Common Good’

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Updated 20 July 2024

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Words and Distinctions for the Common Good’

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Author: GABRIEL ABEND

Social scientists do research on a variety of topics—gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power.

They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, as Gabriel Abend points out in this provocative book, they can’t agree on what these things are and how to identify them.

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