Multiculturalism and Political Theory

Anthony Simon Laden is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of Reasonably Radical: Deliberative Liberalism and the Politics of Identity (2001). David Owen is Professor of Social and Political Philosophy in the Division of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995).

• Introduction; Part I. Trajectories: 1. The new debate on minority rights Will Kymlicka; 2. Structural injustice and the politics of difference Iris Marion Young; 3. Multiculturalism as/and/or anti-racism? Charles W. Mills; 4. Feminism and multiculturalism: mapping the terrain Ayelet Shachar; Part II. Approaches: 5. Egalitarian liberalism and universalism Simon Caney; 6. Contextualism, constitutionalism and Modus Vivendi approaches Jacob T. Levy; 7. Negotiation, deliberation and the claims of politics Anthony Laden; Part III. Critical Issues: 8. Multiculturalism and the critique of essentialism Andrew Mason; 9. Liberalism, multiculturalism and the problem of internal minorities Daniel Weinstock; 10. Redistribution and recognition: two approaches David Owen and James Tully; 11. A critical theory of multicultural toleration Rainer Forst; Part IV. New Directions: 12. Law's necessary forcefulness: Ralph Ellison and Hannah Arendt on the battle of Little Rock Danielle Allen; 13. Imagining civic relations in the moment of their breakdown: a crisis of civic integrity in the Netherlands Bert van den Brink; 14. Democracy and foreignness: democratic cosmopolitanism and the myth of an immigrant America Bonnie Honig.

'This is an excellent state of the art book on multiculturalism. The contributors are all distinguished scholars and the articles are first rate. Highly recommended for scholars and their students.' Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto