Multiculturalism

by Taylor, Charles; Gutmann, Amy

• ISBN13: 9780691037790
• ISBN10: 0691037795
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-22
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Summary

A new edition of the highly acclaimed bookMulticulturalism 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 Juuml;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:

Author Biography

Amy Gutmann is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Preface (1994)	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
	p. 1
Introduction Amy Gutmann	p. 3
The Politics of Recognition Charles Taylor	p. 25
Comment Susan Wolf	p. 75
Comment Steven C. Rockefeller	p. 87
Comment Michael Walzer	p. 99
	p. 105
Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State Jurgen Habermas	p. 107
Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction
Appiah	p. 149
Contributors	p. 165
Index	p. 169
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