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Resisting Throwaway Culture

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

6:00 pm EDT - 7:00 pm EDT

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Description

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.

Book signing and reception to follow the lecture.

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About the Speaker

Charles C. Camosy is Associate Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Fordham University.

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