The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad

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This volume demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behaviour and advocates what the author calls critical idealism as a way of life. It discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and medicalist movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behaviour in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action.