ABSTRACT
The central issue in Part II is multiculturalism or, better, the relation of different sorts of groups to different sorts of states or, better again, the character of civil society and the distribution of wealth and power within it. On these issues I have written a lot but have never attempted a book-length discussion. Will Kymlicka says that I “have consistently insisted on the importance of distinguishing different types of states” (rather than different types of groups). My own sense, reading these pieces, is that I have never consistently insisted on anything. I would like to get David Miller and Jacob Levy arguing directly with one another, since they strongly disagree not only about what I have said but also about what I should have said. Levy and Kymlicka spend a considerable part of their pieces explaining why my views about multiculturalism have been marginal to the American academic debates. I am not going to join that argument. With the exception of my work on just and unjust war, I think that I have generally been marginal to academic debates. Sometimes that bothers me, but mostly it doesn’t.
