Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond Liberalism

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This edited collection offers a comparative approach to the topic of multiculturalism, including different authors with contrasting arguments from different philosophical traditions and ideologies. It puts together perspectives that have been largely neglected as valid normative ways to address the political and moral questions that arise from the coexistence of different cultures in the same geographical space. The essays in this volume cover both historical perspectives, taking in the work of Hobbes, Tocqueville and Nietzsche among others, and contemporary Eastern and Western approaches, including Marxism, anarchism, Islam, Daoism, Indian and African philosophies. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Section 1 Cultural diversity in the history of political thought......Page 22 1 Cultural diversity for the sake of political freedom: Tocqueville’s perspective on multiculturalism......Page 24 2 Unity and diversity in a Hobbesian commonwealth......Page 38 3 Nietzschean perspectives on multiculturalism......Page 52 Section 2 Multiculturalism and Western contemporary political theory......Page 70 4 Anarchism and multiculturalism......Page 72 5 Multiculturalism and oppression: The Marxist perspectives of Fraser, Lenin, and Fanon......Page 89 6 Associative democracy, heterosexism and sexual orientation......Page 106 7 Utilitarianism, religious diversity and progressive pluralism......Page 124 Section 3 Eastern philosophy approaches to multiculturalism......Page 140 8 Multiculturalism, Indian philosophy, and conflicts over cuisine......Page 142 9 A Daoist stance on multiculturalism?: The case of Zhang Taiyan......Page 162 10 Islamic multiculturalism: Coexistence overcoming “Kufr” in Tayeb Saleh’s Season of Migration to the North and Hanan El-Sheik’s Beirut Blues......Page 179 Section 4 Multiculturalism, African and African heritage......Page 196 11 Toward an African recognition theory of civil rights......Page 198 12 The Pan-African philosophy and movement: Social and educational praxis of multiculturalism......Page 218 Contributors......Page 234 Index......Page 238