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Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition

By Charles Taylor , Amy Gutmann (Editor)

Book information

Year
1994
ISBN
0691037795, 9780691037790, 9781400813629
LCC
E184.A1 M84 1994
Open Library ID
OL1095104M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1389609 bytes)
Pages
192\192
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for recognizing the worth of distinctive cultural traditions, remains the centerpiece of this discussion. It is now joined by J?rgen Habermas's extensive essay on the issues of recognition and the democratic constitutional state and by K. Anthony Appiah's commentary on the tensions between personal and collective identities, such as those shaped by religion, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality, and on the dangerous tendency of multicultural politics to gloss over such tensions. These contributions are joined by those of other well-known thinkers, who further relate the demand for recognition to issues of multicultural education, feminism, and cultural separatism.Praise for the previous edition:

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