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Book SynopsisHow should democratic societies define justice for cultural minority groups, and how might such justice be secured? This book is a nuanced and judicious response to a critical issue in political theory—the challenge of according equal respect and...
Trade ReviewBased on her own experiences as a citizen of Canada, a country in which cultural minorities play an important role in social and political issues, Monique Deveaux's Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice stands as a relevent work in the field of political science.... Deveaux's ideas seem to be fair and well-argued, positing deliberative liberalism as a viable alternative to traditional liberal theories.
-- Ruling Barragan Yanez * www.polylog.org *
Monique Deveaux's principal claims in this extremely clear and well-written book is that if modern liberal democracies are to do justice to the claims of minority cultural groups in their midst, they are going to have to be much more democratic, and perhaps somewhat less liberal, than they have heretofore been.
-- Daniel M. Weinstock, University of Montreal * Ethics *
The writing style is very sophisicated.... The text appears to have been well edited and contains a large and useful bibliography. Recommended for graduate and faculty collections.
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Debates about cultural pluralism have dominated democratic theory in the last decades.... Monique Deveaux offers us a comprehensive assessment of these debates, considering proponents of liberal toleration, liberal perectionists such as Kymlicka and Raz, deliberative democrats such as Young and Benhabib, as well as offering her own deliberative brand of liberalism. Her discussion of these arguments is judicious and subtle.... One of the merits of Deveaux's reconstruction of the debates about cultural pluralism is to show that a tolerant, respectful and multiperspectival polity needs to develop institutions that express robust normative commitments to respect and equality.
-- James Bohman * Philosophy in Review *
This is a pithy little book, and Deveaux's analysis of how existing models of liberalism and democracy fail to secure rich cultural pluralism is enlightening.
-- Alice Hearst, Smith College * The Law and Politics Book Review *
