Title

Sheltering Xenophobia

Authors

Ronald SundstromFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 3-13-2013

Abstract

What is xenophobia? Why is xenophobia immoral? How is xenophobia’s conceptual and moral meaning diminished? Investigations of these questions would invigorate xenophobia as a topic in public morality and discourage the public’s acquiesc- ing to xenophobia’s new prominence. This paper focuses on the third question, the diminishment of xenophobia. In the first sec- tion, I outline a general conception of xenophobia. In the second, I explain how theories of membership in liberal democratic soci- eties relegate xenophobia to a minor moral concern. And, in the third, that the conflation of xenophobia with racism disadvantages the former. How liberal Democratic nations imagine membership (not surprisingly) and how those nations imagine racism (surpris- ingly) shelters xenophobia.

Comments

This is a postprint. Article originally published in Critical Philosophy of Race 1.1 (2013): 68-85.

Link to the published article:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/critical_philosophy_of_race/v001/1.1.sundstrom.html

Recommended Citation

Sundstrom, Ronald, "Sheltering Xenophobia" (2013). Philosophy. 49.
https://repository.usfca.edu/phil/49