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Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (245 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203563250
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.8
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Contents:
Cover -- Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Practical reason and identity -- 3 Liberalism and multiculturalism: once more unto the breach -- 4 What is so different about difference? -- 5 'Authenticity' in the jargon of multiculturalism -- 6 Theorizing recognition -- 7 Identity, equality and power: tensions in Parekh's political theory of multiculturalism -- 8 The limits of universalism -- 9 Canadian indigenous peoples and the transformation of political theory into cultural identity -- 10 Identity, reflection and justification -- 11 Brian Barry's egalitarian critique of multiculturalism: a liberal nationalist defence -- 12 Rights and human rights -- 13 The transition from natural rights to the culture of human rights -- 14 Reiterating rights: international society in transition -- Index.
Summary: This innovative volume brings a selection of leading political theorists to the debate on multiculturalism and political legitimacy, and confronts issues including rights, liberalism, cultural pluralism and power relations.
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Cover -- Multiculturalism, Identity and Rights -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Practical reason and identity -- 3 Liberalism and multiculturalism: once more unto the breach -- 4 What is so different about difference? -- 5 'Authenticity' in the jargon of multiculturalism -- 6 Theorizing recognition -- 7 Identity, equality and power: tensions in Parekh's political theory of multiculturalism -- 8 The limits of universalism -- 9 Canadian indigenous peoples and the transformation of political theory into cultural identity -- 10 Identity, reflection and justification -- 11 Brian Barry's egalitarian critique of multiculturalism: a liberal nationalist defence -- 12 Rights and human rights -- 13 The transition from natural rights to the culture of human rights -- 14 Reiterating rights: international society in transition -- Index.

This innovative volume brings a selection of leading political theorists to the debate on multiculturalism and political legitimacy, and confronts issues including rights, liberalism, cultural pluralism and power relations.

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