Monsters and the Moral Imagination [The Chronicle of Higher Education] In our liberal culture, we dramatize the rage of the monstrous creature—and Frankenstein’s is a good example—then scold ourselves and our “intolerant society” for alienating the outcast in the first place. The liberal lesson of monsters is one of tolerance: We must overcome our innate scapegoating, our xenophobic tendencies. I can’t figure out who first linked this but it is entertaining reading Halloween weekend on a foggy night during a full moon.

Monsters and the Moral Imagination [The Chronicle of Higher Education]

In our liberal culture, we dramatize the rage of the monstrous creature—and Frankenstein’s is a good example—then scold ourselves and our “intolerant society” for alienating the outcast in the first place. The liberal lesson of monsters is one of tolerance: We must overcome our innate scapegoating, our xenophobic tendencies.
I can’t figure out who first linked this but it is entertaining reading Halloween weekend on a foggy night during a full moon.

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