Multicultural Questions

by Christian Joppke, Steven Lukes

Overview

This volume assembles leading scholars to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. It discusses the following questions: Is universalism ethnocentric?; Does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; Do minorities require group rights?; and What can Europe learn from North America? The book aims to answer these questions by moving the debate about multicultural questions into a more consensual mode.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198296102
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/16/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Christian Joppke is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence.

Steven Lukes is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Siena, Italy

Table of Contents

1.. Introduction: Multicultural Questions, Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes2. Is Universalism Ethnocentric?, Martin Hollis3. Nous et les Autres? 'We' and the 'Others'?, Seyla Benhabib4. Cultural Pluralism and Partial Citizenship, Jeff Spinner-Halev5. The Paradox of Multicultural Vulnerability: Identity Groups, the State, and Individual Rights, Ayelet Shachar6. An Update from the Multiculturalism Wars: Comments on Shachar and Spinner-Halev, Will Kymlicka7. Liberal Justifications for Ethnic Group Rights, Rainer Baubock8. Against Collective Rights, Yael Tamir9. Multiculturalism and American Exceptionalism, Nathan Glazer10. Minorities and Immigrant Incorporation in France: The State and The Dynamics of Multiculturalism, Martin Schain11. ‘Good to Think': The American Reference in French Discourse of Immigration and Ethnicity, Eric Fassin12. How can we be European? Multicultural Questions in Transatlantic Perspective, Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes