Equal Recognition : The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights / Alan Patten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patten, Alan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Civil rights.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own image, while on the other, cultural minorities press for greater recognition and accommodation. Theories of liberal democracy are at odds about the merits of these competing claims. Multicultural liberals hold that particular minority rights are a requirement of justice conceived of in a broadly liberal fashion. Critics, in turn, have questioned the motivations, coherence, and normative validity of such defenses of multiculturalism. In Equal Recognition, Alan Patten reasserts the case in favor of liberal multiculturalism by developing a new ethical defense of minority rights.Patten seeks to restate the case for liberal multiculturalism in a form that is responsive to the major concerns of critics. He describes a new, nonessentialist account of culture, and he rehabilitates and reconceptualizes the idea of liberal neutrality and uses this idea to develop a distinctive normative argument for minority rights. The book elaborates and applies its core theoretical framework by exploring several important contexts in which minority rights have been considered, including debates about language rights, secession, and immigrant integration.Demonstrating that traditional, nonmulticultural versions of liberalism are unsatisfactory, Equal Recognition will engage readers interested in connections among liberal democracy, nationalism, and current multicultural issues.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction: Liberalism and the Accommodation of Cultural Diversity

Chapter 2. Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account

Chapter 3. Why Does Culture Matter?

Chapter 4. Liberal Neutrality: A Reinterpretation and Defense

Chapter 5. Equal Recognition

Chapter 6. Equal Recognition and Language Rights

Chapter 7. Democratic Secession from a Multinational State

Chapter 8. Immigrants, National Minorities, and Minority Rights

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400850433

1400850436

OCLC:

881162800