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Multiculturalism : examining the politics of recognition / Charles Taylor ... [et al.] ; edited and introduced by Amy Gutmann.

By: Taylor, Charles.
Contributor(s): Gutmann, Amy.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1994Description: xv, 175 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0691037795.Subject(s): Multiculturalism -- United States | Multiculturalism | Minorities -- United States -- Political activity | Minorities -- Political activity | Political culture -- United States | Political cultureDDC classification: 305.800973
Contents:
Part one -- Introduction / Amy Gutmann -- The politics of recognition / Charles Taylor -- Comment / Susan Wolf -- Comment / Steven C. Rockefeller -- Comment / Michael Walzer -- Part two -- Struggles for recognition in the democratic constitutional state / Jurgen Habermias Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen -- Identity, authenticity, survival: multicultural societies and social reproduction / K.Anthony Appith.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism 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 Jürgen 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:

Expanded ed. of: Multiculturalism and "The politics of recognition" / Charles Taylor. c1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one -- Introduction / Amy Gutmann -- The politics of recognition / Charles Taylor -- Comment / Susan Wolf -- Comment / Steven C. Rockefeller -- Comment / Michael Walzer -- Part two -- Struggles for recognition in the democratic constitutional state / Jurgen Habermias Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen -- Identity, authenticity, survival: multicultural societies and social reproduction / K.Anthony Appith.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (1994) (p. ix)
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
  • Part 1 (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)
  • Part 2 (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)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Charles Taylor works creatively with material drawn from both analytical and Continental sources. He was born in Montreal, educated at McGill and Oxford universities, and has taught political science and philosophy at McGill since 1961. He describes himself as a social democrat, and he was a founder and editor of the New Left Review. Taylor's work is an example of renewed interest in the great traditional questions of philosophy. It is informed by a vast scope of literature, ranging from Plato to Jacques Derrida. More accessible to the average reader than most recent original work in philosophy, Taylor's oeuvre centers on questions on philosophical anthropology, that is, on how human nature relates to ethics and society. Taylor develops his themes with an engaging, historically accurate insight. (Bowker Author Biography)