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Title

Theorizing multiculturalism : a guide to the current debate / edited by Cynthia Willett.

Publication

Malden, Mass : Blackwell, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Willett, Cynthia, 1956-

Description

xi, 466 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• This wide-ranging anthology of classic and newly commissioned essays provides an essential resource - the very first collection of the major theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives. Essays span the major positions, including Post-Hegelian Theories of Recognition, Post-Marxism, Postcolonialism and Ethnicity, Liberalism, Analytic and Continental Feminism, Pragmatism, Critical Race Theory, and Theories of Corporeality and Sexuality. Contributors include Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young, Lawrence Blum, Howard McGary, Robert Bernasconi, Lucius Outlaw, and Leonard Harris, among others.
• Theorizing Multiculturalism is ideal for students and researchers in social and political philosophy, social theory, cultural studies, American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, and political theory.

Subjects

• Theorie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Political philosophy
• Philosophy
• Theory
• Pluralism
• Multicultural society
• Cultural diversity
• Cultural pluralism
• Multiculturalism
• Plurale samenleving
• Multiculturele samenlevingen
• Politische Theorie
• Pluralistische Gesellschaft
• Ethnizität
• multiculturalism
• Cultural Diversity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Post-Hegelian dialectics of recognition and communication: From redistribution to recognition? dilemmas of justice in a "post-Socialist" age / Nancy Fraser. Unruly categories : a critique of Nancy Fraser's dual systems theory / Iris Marion Young. Rejoinder to Iris Young / Nancy Fraser. Recognition, value, and equality : a critique of Charles Taylor's and Nancy Fraser's accounts of multiculturalism / Lawrence Blum. Ludic, corporate, and imperial multiculturalism : imposters of democracy and cartographers of the new world order / Martin J. Beck Matuštík -- Post-Marxism and issues of class: Multiculturalism : consumerist or transformational? / Bill Martin. Post-Marxist political economy and the culture of the left / Donald C. Hodges -- Continental and analytical feminism: Identity, difference, and abjection / Kelly Oliver. Psychological explanations of oppression / Ann E. Cudd -- Corporeal logic and sexuate being: Toward the domain of freedom : interview with Drucilla Cornell by Penny Florence / Drucilla Cornell. Morphing the body : Irigaray and Butler on sexual difference / Tamsin Lorraine -- Critical race theory: Alienation and the African-American experience / Howard McGary. "Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again" : interculturalism and the conversation of races / Robert Bernasconi -- Postcolonialism and ethnicity: Fanon and the subject of experience / Ronald A.T. Judy. White studies : the intellectual imperialism of US higher education / Ward Churchill -- Liberalism: Moral deference / Laurence M. Thomas. "Multiculturalism," citizenship, education, and American liberal democracy / Lucius Outlaw, Jr. -- Pragmatism: Ceremony and rationality in the Haudenosaunee tradition / Scott L. Pratt. Educational multiculturalism, critical pluralism, and deep democracy / Judith M. Green. Universal human liberation : community and multiculturalism / Leonard Harris.

ISBN

• 0631203419
• 9780631203414
• 0631203427
• 9780631203421

LCCN

• 97037878
• 9780631203421

OCLC

• ocm37546851
• 37546851
• SCSB-8853509

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library