Research Catalog

Title

Multicultural questions / edited by Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Joppke, Christian.
• Lukes, Steven.

Description

viii, 267 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This volume assembles leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines and countries to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. The volume is grouped around four central questions raised by multiculturalism: (1) Is universalism ethnocentric? (2) Does multiculturalism threaten citizenship? (3) Do minorities require group rights? And (4) What can Europe learn from North America? The answers delivered in this book seek to move the debate about multiculturalism from a polemical into a more analytical mode. This book suggests a Burkean stance toward multiculturalism, in which it is 'circumstances' that render 'every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind'."--Jacket.

Subject

• Multiculturalism > Philosophy
• Social evolution
• Cultural Evolution
• Multiculturele samenlevingen
• Multiculturalisme
• Évolution sociale

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Is universalism ethnocentric? / Martin Hollis -- 'Nous' et 'les autres': the politics of complex cultural dialogue in a global civilization / Seyla Benhabib -- Cultural pluralism and partial citizenship / Jeff Spinner-Halev -- The paradox of multicultural vulnerability / Ayelt Shachar -- Comments on Shachar and Spinner-Halev: an update from the multiculturalism wars / Will Kymlicka -- Liberal justifications for ethnic group rights / Rainer Bauböck -- Against collective rights / Yael Tamir -- Multiculturalism and American exceptionalism / Nathan Glazer -- Minorities and immigrant incorporation in France / Martin Schain -- 'Good to think': the American reference in French discourses of immigration and ethnicity / Éric Fassin -- Comments on Glazer, Schain, and Fassin: how can we be European? / Adrian Favell.

ISBN

• 019829610X
• 9780198296102

LCCN

99024526

OCLC

• ocm40926005
• 40926005
• SCSB-8805320

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library