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Title

Reconstructing post-nationalist liberal pluralism : from interest to identity / Katherine Smits.

Author

Smits, Katherine.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Details

Description

198 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Reconstructing Post-Nationalist Liberal Pluralism examines the relationship between identity politics and liberal political theory. It traces the history of liberal pluralism from John Stuart Mill through to the present, arguing that Mill was the first liberal to see that social group membership fundamentally shaped individual identity, as well as interest and moral beliefs. The book argues for a reconstructed liberal pluralism that is based on identity group membership rather than interests and moral beliefs, which moves beyond liberalism's historical relationship with nationalism. It examines implications of liberal identity politics in cases of minority inclusion in deliberative politics and the political status of Muslim minorities in the West."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Post-nationalist liberal pluralism

Subject

• Cultural pluralism
• Group identity
• Liberalism
• Cultural Diversity
• Social Identification
• group identity
• liberalism
• Identität
• Pluralismus
• Liberalismus
• Gruppindentitet
• Mångkulturella samhällen

Note

• New Zealand author.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.

Contents

Identity politics and the limits of moral pluralism -- Class, nation, and character in nineteenth-century liberal thought -- Interest pluralisms and the erasure of social identity -- Multicultural liberalism -- Group representation and deliberative liberalism -- Cultural recognition and the claims of Muslim immigrant communities -- Reconstructing liberal pluralism.

ISBN

• 140397019X
• 9781403970190

LCCN

2005049190

OCLC

• ocm60515346
• 60515346
• SCSB-8804258

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library