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Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Liberalism & Internally Illiberal Minority Cultures written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191622451
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Multicultural Citizenship written by Will Kymlicka and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1996-09-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain sorts of `collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity, can be answered. However, Professor Kymlicka emphasises that no single formula can be applied to all groups and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. The book discusses issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession - issues which are central to understanding multicultural politics, but which have been surprisingly neglected in contemporary liberal theory.
Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Multicultural Citizenship written by Will Kymlicka and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Muzaffer-Selen Ayirtman Ercan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Beyond Multiculturalism written by Muzaffer-Selen Ayirtman Ercan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores the shortcomings of liberal democracies in responding to illiberal cultures and deep disagreements in multicultural societies, and argues that if suitably amended, the deliberative democratic approach offers the best framework for addressing the 'problem' of illiberal cultures. It begins with a critique of the mainstream deliberative democratic approach which fails to include illiberal cultural claims in public deliberation, and suggests expanding this approach by drawing on the insights provided by agonistic pluralism. Drawing on the work of William Connolly in particular, this thesis develops a deliberative framework for assessing and improving the deliberative quality of public debates on 'illiberal' cultures. In specific terms, this thesis argues that enhancing the deliberative quality of public debates on 'illiberal' cultures depends on three important criteria, conceptualised as: i) expanded inclusion based on agonistic respect, ii) interaction among multiple publics, and iii) influence of counterpublics on formal decision-making bodies. Having established these ideals, this thesis examines recent public and policy debates on 'honour killing' in two culturally plural societies, Britain and Germany. This analysis reveals that although both Britain and Germany are consolidated liberal democracies, the differences in their institutional settings lead to the emergence of different kinds of public deliberation on the issue of 'honour killing'. It shows that achieving high deliberative quality and securing it over time is a constant challenge for liberal democracies. Besides the presence of an institutional structure enabling inclusion and interaction, deliberative quality depends on discursive legacies, and on established notions of what makes sense and whose voice is considered reasonable and legitimate in a given society. The deliberative quality of public debates entailing illiberal cultures seems to be significantly higher in democracies characterised by the presence of strong and vocal counterpublics and where these counterpublics are acknowledged as legitimate participants in meaning-making processes over contested issues. Based on a comparison of the same issue in two democracies, this thesis reveals two key messages for deliberative democrats and scholars of multiculturalism. First, it shows that deep disagreements are neither irreconcible nor reconcilable; they gain different meanings depending on the socio-political context in a given society. Related to this, it points out that deliberation on deep disagreements may fail, not due to the ontological essence of these disagreements, but due to the lack of agonistic respect toward illiberal cultures. It shows that when based on the principle of agonistic respect, deliberation has the capacity to reveal unexpected affinities between the members of minority and majority cultures. Second, the thesis demonstrates that adversarial democracies and their pluralist political structures, which are commonly deemed unsuitable for deliberation, may hold much potential for deliberation across difference if they feature the elements of 'new pluralism' characterised by a sustained web of interaction among multiple publics. -- provided by Candidate.
Author : Steven Wall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110708007X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism written by Steven Wall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert survey of liberal approaches and liberal responses to diverse topics and controversies in contemporary political thought and practice.
Author : Susan Moller Okin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400840996
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? written by Susan Moller Okin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-09 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard in some parts of the world. Do demands for multiculturalism--and certain minority group rights in particular--make them more likely to continue and to spread to liberal democracies? Are there fundamental conflicts between our commitment to gender equity and our increasing desire to respect the customs of minority cultures or religions? In this book, the eminent feminist Susan Moller Okin and fifteen of the world's leading thinkers about feminism and multiculturalism explore these unsettling questions in a provocative, passionate, and illuminating debate. Okin opens by arguing that some group rights can, in fact, endanger women. She points, for example, to the French government's giving thousands of male immigrants special permission to bring multiple wives into the country, despite French laws against polygamy and the wives' own bitter opposition to the practice. Okin argues that if we agree that women should not be disadvantaged because of their sex, we should not accept group rights that permit oppressive practices on the grounds that they are fundamental to minority cultures whose existence may otherwise be threatened. In reply, some respondents reject Okin's position outright, contending that her views are rooted in a moral universalism that is blind to cultural difference. Others quarrel with Okin's focus on gender, or argue that we should be careful about which group rights we permit, but not reject the category of group rights altogether. Okin concludes with a rebuttal, clarifying, adjusting, and extending her original position. These incisive and accessible essays--expanded from their original publication in Boston Review and including four new contributions--are indispensable reading for anyone interested in one of the most contentious social and political issues today. The diverse contributors, in addition to Okin, are Azizah al-Hibri, Abdullahi An-Na'im, Homi Bhabha, Sander Gilman, Janet Halley, Bonnie Honig, Will Kymlicka, Martha Nussbaum, Bhikhu Parekh, Katha Pollitt, Robert Post, Joseph Raz, Saskia Sassen, Cass Sunstein, and Yael Tamir.
Author : Melissa S. Williams
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814794599
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Toleration and Its Limits written by Melissa S. Williams and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toleration has a rich tradition in Western political philosophy. It is, after all, one of the defining topics of political philosophy—historically pivotal in the development of modern liberalism, prominent in the writings of such canonical figures as John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and central to our understanding of the idea of a society in which individuals have the right to live their own lives by their own values, left alone by the state so long as they respect the similar interests of others. Toleration and Its Limits, the latest addition to the NOMOS series, explores the philosophical nuances of the concept of toleration and its scope in contemporary liberal democratic societies. Editors Melissa S. Williams and Jeremy Waldron carefully compiled essays that address the tradition’s key historical figures; its role in the development and evolution of Western political theory; its relation to morality, liberalism, and identity; and its limits and dangers. Contributors: Lawrence A. Alexander, Kathryn Abrams, Wendy Brown, Ingrid Creppell, Noah Feldman, Rainer Forst, David Heyd, Glyn Morgan, Glen Newey, Michael A. Rosenthal, Andrew Sabl, Steven D. Smith, and Alex Tuckness.
Author : Brian Barry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665640
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Culture and Equality written by Brian Barry and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live. How should public policy respond to this diversity? In this important new work, Brian Barry challenges the currently orthodox answer and develops a powerful restatement of an egalitarian liberalism for the twenty-first century. Until recently it was assumed without much question that cultural diversity could best be accommodated by leaving cultural minorities free to associate in pursuit of their distinctive ends within the limits imposed by a common framework of laws. This solution is rejected by an influential school of political theorists, among whom some of the best known are William Galston, Will Kymlicka, Bhikhu Parekh, Charles Taylor and Iris Marion Young. According to them, this 'difference-blind' conception of liberal equality fails to deliver either liberty or equal treatment. In its place, they propose that the state should 'recognize' group identities, by granting groups exemptions from certain laws, publicly 'affirming' their value, and by providing them with special privileges or subsidies. In Culture and Equality, Barry offers an incisive critique of these arguments and suggests that theorists of multiculturism tend to misdiagnose the problems of minority groups. Often, these are not rooted in culture, and multiculturalist policies may actually stand in the way of universalistic measures that would be genuinely beneficial.
Author : Chandran Kukathas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191531502
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Liberal Archipelago written by Chandran Kukathas and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-06-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his major new work Chandran Kukathas offers, for the first time, a book-length treatment of this controversial and influential theory of minority rights. The work is a defence of a form of liberalism and multiculturalism. The general question it tries to answer is: what is the principled basis of a free society marked by cultural diversity and group loyalties? More particularly, it explains whether such a society requires political institutions which recognize minorities; how far it should tolerate such minorities when their ways differ from those of the mainstream community; to what extent political institutions should address injustices suffered by minorities at the hands of the wider society, and also at the hands of the powerful within their own communities; what role, if any, the state should play in the shaping of a society's (national) identity; and what fundamental values should guide our reflections on these matters. Its main contention is that a free society is an open society whose fundamental principle is the principle of freedom of association. A society is free to the extent that it is prepared to tolerate in its midst associations which differ or dissent from its standards or practices. An implication of these principles is that political society is also no more than one among other associations; its basis is the willingness of its members to continue to associate under the terms which define it. While it is an 'association of associations', it is not the only such association; it does not subsume all other associations. The principles of a free society describe not a hierarchy of superior and subordinate authorities but an archipelago of competing and overlapping jurisdictions. The idea of a liberal archipelago is defended as one which supplies us with a better metaphor of the free society than do older notions such as the body politic, or the ship of state. This work presents a challenge, and an alternative, to other contemporary liberal theories of multiculturalism.
Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198278719
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Liberalism, Community, and Culture written by Will Kymlicka and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature and value of community and culture from a liberal viewpoint, and links the theories under discussion to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality.
Author : Andrew Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484972
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Culture and Order in World Politics written by Andrew Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pre-publication, book had the subtitle Diversity and its discontents.
Author : Rajeev Bhargava
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195692983
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (929 download)
Download or read book Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy written by Rajeev Bhargava and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers originally presented at a seminar organized by the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
Author : William A. Galston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521813042
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Liberal Pluralism written by William A. Galston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : John Rawls
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266560
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Law of Peoples written by John Rawls and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of two parts: “The Law of Peoples,” a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited,” first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls. “The Law of Peoples” extends the idea of a social contract to the Society of Peoples and lays out the general principles that can and should be accepted by both liberal and non-liberal societies as the standard for regulating their behavior toward one another. In particular, it draws a crucial distinction between basic human rights and the rights of each citizen of a liberal constitutional democracy. It explores the terms under which such a society may appropriately wage war against an “outlaw society” and discusses the moral grounds for rendering assistance to non-liberal societies burdened by unfavorable political and economic conditions. “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” explains why the constraints of public reason, a concept first discussed in Political Liberalism (1993), are ones that holders of both religious and non-religious comprehensive views can reasonably endorse. It is Rawls’s most detailed account of how a modern constitutional democracy, based on a liberal political conception, could and would be viewed as legitimate by reasonable citizens who on religious, philosophical, or moral grounds do not themselves accept a liberal comprehensive doctrine—such as that of Kant, or Mill, or Rawls’s own “Justice as Fairness,” presented in A Theory of Justice (1971).
Author : Cheng Chen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047615
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist States written by Cheng Chen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will Kymlicka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191522724
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Politics in the Vernacular written by Will Kymlicka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-01-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together eighteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the well-known theory of minority rights first developed in his Multicultural Citizenship. In these new essays, Kymlicka applies his theory to several pressing controversies regarding ethnic relations today, responds to some of his critics, and situates the debate over minority rights within the larger context of issues of nationalism, democratic citizenship and globalization. The essays are divided into four sections. The first section summarizes 'the state of the debate' over minority rights, and explains how the debate has evolved over the past 15 years. The second section explores the requirements of ethnocultural justice in a liberal democracy. Kymlicka argues that the protection of individual human rights is insufficient to ensure justice between ethnocultural groups, and that minority rights must supplement human rights. In particular, Kymlicka explores why some form of power-sharing (such as federalism) is often required to ensure justice for national minorities; why indigenous peoples have distinctive rights relating to economic development and environmental protection; and why we need to define fairer terms of integration for immigrants. The third section focuses on nationalism. Kymlicka discusses some of the familiar misinterpretations and preconceptions which liberals have about nationalism, and defends the need to recognize that there are genuinely liberal forms of nationalism. He discusses the familiar (but misleading) contrast between 'cosmopolitanism' and 'nationalism', and discusses why liberals have gradually moved towards a position that combines elements of both. The final section explores how these increasing demands by ethnic and national groups for minority rights affect the practice of democratic citizenship. Kymlicka surveys recent theories of citizenship, and raises questions about how they are challenged by ethnocultural diversity. He emphasizes the importance of education as a site of conflict between demands for accommodating ethnocultural diversity and demands for promoting the common virtues and loyalties required by democratic citizenship. And, finally, he explores the extent to which 'globalization' requires us to think about citizenship in more global terms, or whether citizenship will remain tied to national institutions and political processes. Taken together, these essays make a major contribution to enriching our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnocultural relations in Western democracies.
Author : Susanna Rabow-Edling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351370308
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Liberalism in Pre-revolutionary Russia written by Susanna Rabow-Edling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals were faced with a dilemma. They had to choose between modernizing their country, thus imitating the West, or reaffirming what was perceived as their country's own values and thereby risk remaining socially underdeveloped and unable to compete with Western powers. Scholars have argued that this led to the emergence of an anti-Western, anti-modern ethnic nationalism. In this innovative book, Susanna Rabow-Edling shows that there was another solution to the conflicting agendas of modernization and cultural authenticity – a Russian liberal nationalism. This nationalism took various forms during the long nineteenth century, but aimed to promote reforms through a combination of liberalism, nationalism and imperialism.
