Reconstructing Post-Nationalist Liberal Pluralism From Interest to Identity

by Smits, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9781403970190
• ISBN10: 140397019X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-10
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book examines liberal theory's attempts to accommodate pluralism, asking two fundamental questions: How and why have theorists based their defenses and proposed revisions of liberal pluralism upon particular and contestable definitions of what is the relevant and significant plurality? And can a revised liberal pluralism account for the political significance of sub-national identity group membership?

Author Biography

Katherine Smits is Lecturer of Political Science, Auckland University.

Table of Contents

Identity Politics and the Limits of Moral Pluralism * Class, Nation and Character in Nineteenth Century Liberal Thought * Interest Pluralisms and the Erasure of Social Identity * Multicultural Liberalism * Group Representation and Deliberative Liberalism * Cultural Recognition and the Claims of Muslim Immigrant Communities * Conclusion: Reconstructing Liberal Pluralism