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Title: Multiculturalism by Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann ISBN: 0-691-03779-5 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 August, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Multiculturalism
Comment: I found this book to be well written and therefore, very easy to read. Wonderful new material. I have learned several new theories.
Rating: 2
Summary: Academic professionalism
Comment: At first sight the book seems so insightful - and it clearly stems from a sincere wish to understand other cultures and others holding different views than one's own within one's own culture. But then comes page 20. Gutmann writes that the task is to rescue us from a world of entrenched battlefields and point the way to "mutually respectful communities of substantial, sometimes even fundamental, INTELLECTUAL disagreement" (my emphasis). What such a viewpoint does is to limit the discussion to rational discourse. One can agree on a base-line of open discussion with those you may be in diasagreement with but only when the 'crazies' have been left outside, those who preach hatred, or even those who choose to opt out. This is all what Richard Rorty called 'wet liberalism'. Terribly disappointing. After Gutmann's intellectualist and ultimately elitist point of view dawns, the other essays fall within the same light.
Rating: 5
Summary: A timely debate, with an emphasis on the philosophical.
Comment: One web page which I recently encountered urged the USA to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism, and thereby become the first great nation to make this postmodern leap; ahead of the U.K., and all of the other states which have considered such a move. Yet Canada and Australia have been formally self-designated as multicultural states for decades. What has been the result, and what does multiculturalism offer other pluralist states, such as the United States, in the 21st century? After all, some say that the end of the 'melting pot' would be the end of national unity in America, while others feel it would truly be the begining. In this book, neither the 'potential for utopia', nor the 'armageddon scenario' of multicultural policies will be appeased. Professor Charles Taylor examines the implications of state-enshrined multiculturalism, and then opens the floor to several of the world's leading intellectuals (including Jurgen Habbermas) to debate the topic in this 'heady' little book. The result is rather surprising. Rather than narrowing in on the details of the Canadian or Australian experiences with the policy, the book explores the entire developement of modern liberalism which lead to such policies, and devotes many pages to the argument concerning whether such policies weaken individual rights, while creating collective rights. This is not a manual for extremists, on either side of the debate, but it should aid those who seek to peer deeply beneath the surface of multicultural policies unearthing their philosophical base. The implications of such policies are widely considered, and for a wide range of groups across North America and Europe.
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Title: The Claims of Culture : Equality and Diversity in the Global Era by Seyla Benhabib ISBN: 0691048630 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship by Will Kymlicka ISBN: 0199240981 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford Political Theory) by Will Kymlicka ISBN: 0198290918 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor ISBN: 0674824261 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor ISBN: 0674268636 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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