Theorizing Multiculturalism A Guide to the Current Debate

by Willett, Cynthia

• ISBN13: 9780631203421
• ISBN10: 0631203427
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly-commissioned essays brings together the major theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives. Although the postmodern critique of grand theory prepared the way for multiculturalism, this same critique has also threatened to leave current research on race, gender, sex, ethnicity, and class without unity or direction. By challenging the impasses of the postmodern critique, this collection serves to explore the very possibility of a grounding work in multiculturalism and diversity without resorting to the foundationalism of traditional philosophy.

Author Biography

The editor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. She teaches courses in ethics, social theory, and contemporary Continental philosophy. Her previous publications include articles in Cultural Critique, Philosophy and Literature, and Research in Phenomenology. She has also published a book, Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities (1995).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Post-Hegelian Dialectics of Recognition and Communication

From Redistribution to Recogntion? Dilemmas of Justice in a "Post-Socialist" Age (Nancy Fraser)

Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser's Dual Systems Theory (Iris Marion Young)

A Rejoinder to Iris Young (Nancy Fraser)

Recognition, Value, and Equality: A Critique of Charles Taylor's and Nancy Fraser's Accounts of Multiculturalism (Lawrence Blum)

Ludic, Corporate, and Imperial Multiculturalism of the New World Order (Martin J. Beck Matustik)

Post-Marxism and Issues of Class.Multiculturalism: Consumerist or Transformational? (Bill Martin)

Post-Marxist Political Economy and the Culture of the Left (Donald C. Hodges)

Continental and Analytical Feminism

Identity, Difference, and Abjection (Kelly Oliver)

Psychological Explanations of Oppression (Ann E. Cudd)

Corporeal Logic and Sexuate Being

Toward the Domain of Freedom: Interview with Drucilla Cornell by Penny Florence (Drucilla Cornell)

Morphing the Body: Irigaray and Butler on Sexual Difference (Tamsin Lorraine)

Critical Race Theory

Alienation and the African-American Experience (Howard McGary)

"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again": Interculturalism and Conversation of Races (RobertBernasconi)

Postcolonialism and Ethnicity

Fanon and the Subject of Experience (Ronald A. T. Judy)

White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of US Higher Education (Ward Churchill)

Liberalism

Moral Deference (Laurence M. Thomas)

"Multiculturalism," Citizenship, Education, and American Liberal Democracy (Lucius Outlaw, Jr.)

Pragmatism

Ceremony and Rationality in the Haudenosaunee Tradition (Scott L. Pratt)

Educational Multiculturalism, Critical Pluralism, and Deep Democracy (Judith M. Green)

Universal Human Liberation: Community and Multiculturalism (Leonard Harris)

Index

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