Multiculturalism : examining the politics of recognition / Charles Taylor ... [et al.] ; edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Charles, 1931-

Gutmann, Amy.

Series:

University Center for Human Values series.

The University Center for Human Values series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

Minorities--Political activity--United States.

Minorities.

Minorities--Political activity.

Political culture--United States.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 175 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1994.

Summary:

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 Jürgen 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:

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface (1994)

Preface and Acknowledgments

PART ONE

Introduction / Gutmann, Amy

The Politics of Recognition / Taylor, Charles

Comment / Wolf, Susan

Comment / Rockefeller, Steven C.

Comment / Walzer, Michael

PART TWO

Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State / Habermas, Jürgen

Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction / Appiah, K. Anthony

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Expanded ed. of: Multiculturalism and "The politics of recognition" / Charles Taylor. c1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613371836

OCLC:

768081828