IMN introduces the next interesting book: Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition"

CHARLES TAYLOR, K. ANTHONY APPIAH, JÜRGEN HABERMAS

STEVEN C. ROCKEFELLER, MICHAEL WALZER, SUSAN WOLF

Edited and Introduced by AMY GUTMANN

" A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism.

. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for recognizing the worth of distinctive cultural traditions, remains the centerpiece of this discussion. It is now joined by Jürgen Habermas's extensive essay on the issues of recognition and the democratic constitutional state and by K. Anthony Appiah's commentary on the tensions between personal and collective identities, such as those shaped by religion, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality, and on the dangerous tendency of multicultural politics to gloss over such tensions. These contributions are joined by those of other well-known thinkers, who further relate the demand for recognition to issues of multicultural education, feminism, and cultural separatism......."

Table of Contents:

Preface (1994) ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xiii

PART ONE 1 

Introduction Amy Gutmann 3

The Politics of Recognition Charles Taylor 25

Comment Susan Wolf 75

Comment Steven C. Rockefeller 87

Comment Michael Walzer 99

PART TWO 105

Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State Jurgen Habermas Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen 107

Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction K. Anthony Appiah 149

Contributors 165

Index 169

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