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This article argues that cancel culture rhetoric has become a key language for moral conflict in a polarized polity. A thematic rhetorical analysis of two prominent figures who claimed to be canceled, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling, shows similar rhetorical moves despite different contexts. Drawing conclusions from their rhetorical strategies, this article contends that claiming to be canceled is an effective image repair maneuver in the contemporary, polarized political system. As Hawley and Rowling's rhetoric shows, claiming to be canceled allows a speaker to chart a middle course between empowerment and disempowerment while identifying a transcendent context to take a stand against a defined moral ill. Likewise, it crafts a moment of urgency wherein the speaker and their audience can relate, prompting a moralizing call to action. In short, claiming to be canceled facilitates storytelling where character work can occur in the service of image repair and image promotion.

Multiculturalism and the Nation in Germany examines the new debates surrounding matters of multiculturalism, immigration, and national identity in Germany in the wake of the 2015 Refugee Crisis. Arguing that contemporary disputes are centered around four moral ideals, or ideal visions of the German community, it draws upon the thought of Émile Durkheim to identify the role of the sacred in political conflict. The book argues that at the heart of each moral ideal is a sacred object that legitimates specific policies and behaviors, and that attempts to realize moral ideals lead to conflicts involving free speech, German Memory Culture, inner-party rivalries, and political violence that go to the very essence of what it means to be German. The book includes a ground-breaking theoretical re-working of Durkheim's sociology, which it applies to the study of power and politics, as well as to debates in political philosophy.

Introduction -- 1. The Study of Moral Facts 2. A Moral History of Postwar Germany 3. The Moral Ideal of Constitutional Patriotism 4. The German State's Fight Against Hate Speech 5. The Moral Ideal of Non-Domination: The Ideology of the Autonomen 6. Violence and Solidarity: Autonomen Ritual Violence 7. The Moral Ideal of the Nation: Between the Ethno-Cultural Nation and the Volksgemeinschaft 8. The Takeover of the AfD by the Fl|gel 9. Cultural Alienation: The Nation and the Loss of the Feeling of Home 10. The Ritual Violence of the Far Right -- Conclusion.

Moral conflict is central to appealing narratives, but no methodology exists for computationally extracting moral conflict from narratives at scale. In this article, we present an approach combining tools from social network analysis and natural language processing with recent theoretical advancements in the Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars. This approach considers narratives in terms of a network of dynamically evolving relationships between characters. We apply this method in order to analyze 894 movie scripts encompassing 82,195 scenes, showing that scenes containing moral conflict between central characters can be identified using changes in connectivity patterns between network modules. Furthermore, we derive computational models for standardizing moral conflict measurements. Our results suggest that this method can accurately extract moral conflict from a diverse collection of movie scripts. We provide a theoretical integration of our method into the larger milieu of storytelling and entertainment research, illuminating future research trajectories at the intersection of computational communication research and media psychology.

Intro -- Moral Conflicts of Organ Retrieval: A Case for Constructive Pluralism -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: A Philosophical Framework -- 1 Dilemmas, Conflicts, and Residue -- 1 Terminology -- 2 Moral Residue -- 3 Epistemology and Ontology of Dilemmas -- 4 Dilemmas and Deontic Logic -- 5 Guilt, Regret, and Remorse -- 6 Autonomy and Wrongdoing -- 7 Survivor's Guilt -- 8 The Nature of Emotion -- 9 Residual Requirements to Act -- 10 Can We Do without Residue? -- 11 Intuitively Knowing Dilemmas -- 12 Conclusion -- 2 Medical Ethics and Its Limitations -- 1 Cliff's Choice -- 2 Beauchamp and Childress's Principlism -- 3 Virtue Ethics -- 4 Feminist Bioethics -- 5 Case Analysis -- 6 Engelhardt's Postmodern Libertarianism -- 7 Gert, Culver, and Clouser on Common Morality -- 8 Cliff's Choice Revisited -- 9 Conclusion -- 3 Pluralism, Incommensurability, and Weighing -- 1 Moral Pluralism -- 2 Incommensurability -- 3 Covering Values -- 4 The Plurality of Values -- 5 The Calculation of Values -- 6 The Irresolvability of Conflict -- 7 Education and Skill -- 8 Merited Desire Strength -- 9 Weighing Our Options -- 10 Conclusion -- Part 2: Conflicts of Organ Retrieval -- 4 Transplant Recipients' Quality of Life -- 1 Heart Transplants -- 2 Liver Transplants -- 3 Kidney Transplants -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Can We Wrong the Dead? -- 1 Bioethics and Patient Autonomy -- 2 The Pitcher-Feinberg Thesis -- 3 Callahan's Challenge -- 4 Serafini's Thesis -- 5 Symbolic Action and the Preferences of the Living -- 6 For the Living -- 7 Conclusion -- 6 Defining Death -- 1 Historical Background for the Whole Brain Definition of Death -- 2 Problems with the Whole Brain Definition of Death -- 3 The Higher Brain Definition -- 4 Revisiting the Whole Brain Definition -- 5 The Cardiopulmonary Definition -- 6 Renewed Challenges to Whole Brain Death.

The ongoing social crises and moral conflicts evident in global social policy debates are addressed in this timely volume. Leading interdisciplinary scholars focus on the 'social' of social policy, which is increasingly conceived in a globalised form, as new international agreements and global goals engender the social struggle. They tackle pressing 'social questions' concerning growing inequality, changing world population, ageing societies, migration and intersectional disadvantage. This ground-breaking volume critically engages with contested conceptions of 'the social' which are increasingly deployed by international institutions and policy makers.

To be considered worthy of society's protection is not the objective consequence of an inherent quality but the result of a social process. This article examines this observation through the case of canine welfare in China. Popular defense of dogs against brutalization and consumption, as well as state regulations, have become common in China in recent years, generating conflicts over the value attributed to dogs. To understand the circumstances behind and broader implications of activists' support for protecting dogs, this article identifies elements that are determinant: framing; prioritization; the relationship between protectors and protected; and the socio-political background of these campaigns. (Crit Asian Stud / GIGA)