{"product_id":"aporophobia-why-we-reject-the-poor-instead-of-helping-them-paperback","title":"Aporophobia: Why We Reject the Poor Instead of Helping Them - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdela Cortina\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy \"aporophobia\"--rejection of the poor--is one of the most serious problems facing the world today, and how we can fight it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revelatory book, acclaimed political philosopher Adela Cortina makes an unprecedented assertion: the biggest problem facing the world today is the rejection of poor people. Because we can't recognize something we can't name, she proposes the term \"aporophobia\" for the pervasive exclusion, stigmatization, and humiliation of the poor, which cuts across xenophobia, racism, antisemitism, and other prejudices. Passionate and powerful, \u003ci\u003eAporophobia\u003c\/i\u003e examines where this nearly invisible daily attack on poor people comes from, why it is so harmful, and how we can fight it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAporophobia\u003c\/i\u003e traces this universal prejudice's neurological and social origins and its wide-ranging, pernicious consequences, from unnoticed hate crimes to aporophobia's threat to democracy. It sheds new light on today's rampant anti-immigrant feeling, which Cortina argues is better understood as aporophobia than xenophobia. We reject migrants not because of their origin, race, or ethnicity but because they seem to bring problems while offering nothing of value. And this is unforgivable in societies that enshrine economic exchange as the supreme value while forgetting that we can't create communities worth living in without dignity, generosity, and compassion for all. Yet there is hope, and Cortina explains how we can overcome the moral, social, and political disaster of aporophobia through education and democratic institutions, and how poverty itself can be eradicated if we choose. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a world of migrant crises and economic inequality, \u003ci\u003eAporophobia \u003c\/i\u003eis essential for understanding and confronting one of the most serious problems of the twenty-first century.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdela Cortina\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of ethics and political philosophy at the University of Valencia in Spain, and the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFor an Ethics of Consumption\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 8.11 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42163936624775,"sku":"9780691239439","price":28.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7cdea06584039dc819096e06b3a8d5ae.webp?v=1733301472","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/aporophobia-why-we-reject-the-poor-instead-of-helping-them-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}