Description
Book SynopsisTheories of liberal multiculturalism seek to reconcile cultural rights with universal liberal principles. Some focus on individual autonomy; others emphasize communal identity. Andrew Robinson argues that liberal multiculturalism can be justified without privileging either ...
Trade Review"An important and original work on a pressing and difficult issue. Robinson cuts through the standard terms of the "liberal-multiculturalism" debate and reconfigures them in a way that will fundamentally change the debate. His book is like a breath of fresh air on the subject. - Don Carmichael, co-author of Democracy, Rights and Well-Being in Canada"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Inspecting the Foundations
1 Why Return to Foundational Assumptions?
Part 2: The Foundations of Meaningful Life
2 Meaningful Life and the Conception of the Person
3 Justifying Cultural Accommodation: Identification, Communities,and Contexts of Value
4 Situated Autonomy and Socialization
Part 3: A Politics of Liberal Multiculturalism
5 Defining Communities and Justifying Accommodation
6 Designing Cultural Accommodation
7 State-Community Relations
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
