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Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice
Monique Deveaux
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Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 465.
How 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 recognition to minority groups and accommodating their claims for special cultural rights and arrangements.Monique Deveaux contends that liberal theorists fail to grant enough importance to identity and the content of cultural life in their attempts to conceive of political institutions for plural societies. She takes to task the spectrum of theories on pluralism, from weak and strong theories of tolerance through neutralist liberalism to comprehensive liberalism, and finally to arguments for deliberative politics that build on Jurgen Habermas's discourse ethics. The solution proposed here is deliberative liberalism, which incorporates both critically reconceived principles of deliberative democracy and central liberal norms of consent and respect. Cultural conflicts in democratic societies include clashes involving Aboriginal peoples, ethnic and linguistic minorities, and recent immigrant groups in Europe, North America, and Australia. Drawing on examples from several countries, Deveaux concludes that genuine respect and recognition for cultural minorities requires full inclusion in existing institutions and the right to help shape the political culture of their own societies through democratic dialogue and deliberation.
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801436826
SKU
V9780801436826
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About Monique Deveaux
Monique Deveaux is Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams College.
Reviews for Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice
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
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.
Choice
Sensitive, judicious, and nuanced, this book possesses the virtues that a politics committed to the accommodation of difference requires. Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice is an important and accessible contribution to one of the most important and hotly debated issues in political theory today.
J. Donald Moon, Wesleyan University 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
Monique Deveaux has written a defining text of the emerging, second generation of scholars who reflect critically on the recognition and accommodation of cultural pluralism in liberal democracies. Her account of 'deliberative democracy' is cutting-edge work that will help to initiate a new phase in the debate.
James Tully, University of Victoria 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
Based 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
Alice Hearst, Smith College
The Law and Politics Book Review
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.
Choice
Sensitive, judicious, and nuanced, this book possesses the virtues that a politics committed to the accommodation of difference requires. Cultural Pluralism and Dilemmas of Justice is an important and accessible contribution to one of the most important and hotly debated issues in political theory today.
J. Donald Moon, Wesleyan University 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
Monique Deveaux has written a defining text of the emerging, second generation of scholars who reflect critically on the recognition and accommodation of cultural pluralism in liberal democracies. Her account of 'deliberative democracy' is cutting-edge work that will help to initiate a new phase in the debate.
James Tully, University of Victoria 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
Based 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