ABSTRACT
As we have seen, we live in a world of increasing diversity. Historically, liberal political theory was the tool that was brandished to deal with diversity. In this chapter, I will demonstrate that much of contemporary liberal theory fails to fully appreciate the degree to which diversity changes the structure of political communities. Rawlsian public reason liberalism, the most promising and prominent effort to put diversity at the heart of its analysis, given its focus on “reasonable pluralism,” will be the focus of my attention.
