ABSTRACT

This innovative volume brings a selection of leading political theorists to the wide-ranging debate on multiculturalism and political legitimacy. By focusing on the challenge to mainstream liberal theory posed by the surge of interest in the rights of minority groups and subcultures within states, the authors confront issues such as rights, liberalism, cultural pluralism and power relations.

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3 Liberalism and multiculturalism

Once more unto the breach

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7 Identity, equality and power

Tensions in Parekh's political theory of multiculturalism

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11 Brian Barry's egalitarian critique of multiculturalism

A liberal nationalist defence

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14 Reiterating rights

International society in transition