ABSTRACT
Dominant conceptions of pluralism are based upon a rights-based approach and though thinkers such as William E. Connolly, urge people to overcome their legalistic binding by cultivating an ethos of pluralization, there is still the stupendous task of overcoming the pervasive influence and valorization of the rights discourse, which lacks a perspective and practice of responsibility. Connolly has presented the pathways of multidimensionally creative pluralism. For Connolly, in rethinking pluralism it is important to pluralize our accepted frames of identity: nation-state, ethnic identity, a normal model of heterosexuality, or a stable self. Connolly's outlines of a new vision of normative pluralism have inspiring pedigrees both in the Western as well as non-Western imaginations and social experiments. Human rights are verbs, so are processes of pluralization. Pluralization here embodies meditative verbs of co-realizations of different parts in the interacting field of pluralism. It embodies a new art of border crossing between individuals and groups and their cultures and worldviews.
