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"Anyone interested in multiculturalism and wishing to become acquainted with contemporary political theory's attempts to address the issues thrown forward by the national and international politics of diversity cannot do better than begin with Jacob Levy's study."--thics
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This vital new liberal account of multiculturalism combines an analysis of the policy dilemmas faced by multiethnic states around the world with a philosophical consideration of multiculturalism and nationalism. Jacob T. Levy boldly argues that liberalism should not be centrally concerned with either preserving or transcending cultural communities, practices, and identities. Rather, he contends that liberalism should focus on mitigating evils such as inter-ethnic civil wars and state violence against ethnic minorities. In order for this "multiculturalism of fear" to be grounded in the realities of ethnic politics and conflict, it must take seriously the importance people place on their ethnic identities and cultural practices without falling into a celebration of cultural belonging.
Levy applies his approach to a variety of policy problems, including the regulation of sexist practices inside cultural communities, secession and national self-determination, land rights, and customary law, and draws on cases from such diverse states as Australia, Canada, Israel, India, South Africa, and the United States.
Levy applies his approach to a variety of policy problems, including the regulation of sexist practices inside cultural communities, secession and national self-determination, land rights, and customary law, and draws on cases from such diverse states as Australia, Canada, Israel, India, South Africa, and the United States.
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common law incorporation, customary incorporation, internal cruelty, symbolic disputes, common law recognition, political cruelty, customary recognition, multiethnic world, multicultural accommodation, sunna circumcision, indigenous land rights, indigenous law, genital cutting, symbolic claims, official apologies, aboriginal title, native title, adverse possession, official apology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Ethiopian Jews, New Zealand, Supreme Court, Will Kymlicka, Yael Tamir, Cambridge University Press, Liberal Nationalism, Michael Walzer, Baker Lake, Charles Taylor, David Miller, Donald Horowitz, New Haven, Princeton University Press, Chandran Kukathas, Harvard University Press, Isaiah Berlin, Joseph Raz, North America, Rogers Brubaker, The Moral Importance of Cultural, Walker Connor, Allen Buchanan New!
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- Liberal Nationalism (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy) by Yael Tamir on 8 pages
- Political Order: Nomos XXXVIII by Ian Shapiro on 6 pages
- The Morality of Nationalism by Robert McKim on 5 pages
- Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin on 4 pages
- Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface by Donald L. Horowitz on 4 pages
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- Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States by Monique Deveaux on page 8, page 35, and Back Matter
- Identity, Self-determination And Secession by Igor Primoratz on page 153, and page 154
- After Socialism: Volume 20, Part 1 (Social Philosophy and Policy) (v. 20) by Ellen Frankel Paul in Front Matter, and page 294
- Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair by Martha Minow on page 103, and page 105
- Identity in Democracy by Amy Gutmann in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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