Research Catalog

Title

The democratic contradictions of multiculturalism / Jens-Martin Eriksen & Frederik Stjernfelt.

Author

Eriksen, Jens-Martin

Publication

New York, NY : Telos Press Pub., c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stjernfelt, Frederik.

Description

vii, 422 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Adskillelsens politik. English

Alternative Title

Adskillelsens politik.

Subject

• Multiculturalism
• Social groups

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface -- Introduction: Multiculturalism: Soft and Hard -- Malaysia: -- Malaysia and Its Road to Multiculturalism -- Chirita's Anger and Patience -- The Challenges of Multiculturalism -- Human rights and Islam: Two Different Worlds -- An Alliance with Liberal Muslims Is Indispensable -- There is a Way for Us to Live That Is Pleasing to God -- The Bann on Apostasy Is Meant to Control Muslims -- The Problem Appears If You Do Not Have Any Religion -- Ethnopolitical Communitarianism and the Public Sphere -- We Could Not Hae Imagined This in Our Worst Nightmares! -- Postscript -- The Broken Cup: From Culturalism to Multiculturalism: -- The Roots of Culturalism -- From Anthropology to Politics: Anthropologists against the UN -- Culturalism: From Idea to Unconscious Presupposition -- The Argument of Culturalsim Dissected -- Left- and Right-Wing Culturalism: UNESCO and Lévi-Strauss -- Finkielkraut and UNESCO Culturalism -- From Culturalism to Multiculturalism -- From Communitarianism to Campus Radicalism -- Multiculturalism and Recognition : Charles Taylor -- Liberal Multiculturalism as Political Philosophy: Will Kymlicka -- Does Liberalism Need Multiculturalism? -- Kymlicka in the Liberal Field of Gravity -- The Chips from the Cup.
• Protection against Defamation: A Multicultural Group Right? -- Muhammad and Fogh Caricatures: A Comparative Analysis -- The Religious Pressure against Freedom of Speech -- Political Columns: -- Culturalism: Culture as Political Ideology -- Islamophobia -- Free Speech and "Those in Power" -- Culture as a Refuge -- The Other -- Xenophobia and Xenophilia: Two Kinds of Difference Worship -- Secularism is Fundamentalist! -- Fifty-five Questions to the New Norm -- Enlightenment Versus Culturalism -- Republicanism and Culturalism -- Who Is Entitled To Disagree? -- Two Levels of Values -- Freedom of Speech: Freedom from Whom? -- Islamic Rights -- Apostasy -- Asian Values -- Christianity as the Mother of Enlightenment: A Culturalist Myth -- The Invasion of the Word Snatchers: Culturalist Newspeak -- Tolerance and Respect Are Not the Same Thing -- Diversity as a Good -- Monoculturalism in Plural -- Revealed by the Veil -- Spokesmen for a Culture -- The Dynamics of Extremism -- The Disneyland of Culture -- Appendix: The Religious Pressure against Free Speech: A Chronology.

ISBN

• 9780914386469
• 0914386468

LCCN

• ^^2011036875
• 7429659

OCLC

793212881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library