Liberalism, diversity and domination : Kant, Mill, and the government of difference / Inder S. Marwah, McMaster University, Ontario.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Marwah, Inder S., 1977- author.

Contributor:

• Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.
• Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873.
• Liberalism--Philosophy.
• Pluralism--Political aspects.
• Pluralism.

Physical Description:

x, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]

Summary:

This study addresses the complex and often fractious relationship between liberal political theory and difference by examining how distinctive liberalisms respond to human diversity. Drawing on published and unpublished writings, private correspondence and lecture notes, the study offers comprehensive reconstructions of Immanuel Kant's and John Stuart Mill's treatment of racial, cultural, gender-based and class-based difference to understand how two leading figures reacted to pluralism, and what contemporary readers might draw from them. The book mounts a qualified defence of Millian liberalism against Kantianism's predominance in contemporary liberal political philosophy, and resists liberalism's implicit association with imperialist domination by showing different divergent responses to diversity. Here are two distinctive liberal visions of moral and political life.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Hating Mill, and a few questions raised by hating Mill
• Why Kant and Mill?
• A note on liberalism(s)
• A note on subject matter
• Unbending crooked timber
• Transcendental grounding, empirical contexts
• Making moral agents
• From the good will to the good human being
• A fuller moral agency
• Difference, diversity and exclusion
• Political exclusion
• Political exclusion, moral exclusion
• Moral exclusion
• The kind of moral agents we can be
• Democratic character and the affective grounds of politics
• Government
• Affect, character and democracy
• Moral psychology and political virtue
• A fuller liberalism
• Complicating barbarism and civilization
• An exemplary liberal imperialist : the case against J.S. Mill
• Inheriting the sins of the father? : James and John Stuart Mill
• Complicating civilization
• Mill's sociology of human development
• Liberalisms, developmentalisms and diversity
• Millian liberalism
• Liberalisms past and present
• Kantian and Millian liberalisms
• Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

• 9781108493789
• 1108493785

OCLC:

1076550800

Online:

The Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund Home Page