The Claims of Culture (eBook)

Equality and Diversity in the Global Era

Seyla Benhabib (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18654-2 (ISBN)

Infos

How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, Seyla Benhabib challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. She argues that much debate--including that of "e;strong"e; multiculturalism, which sees cultures as distinct pieces of a mosaic--is dominated by this faulty belief, one with grave consequences for how we think injustices among groups should be redressed and human diversity achieved. Benhabib masterfully presents an alternative approach, developing an understanding of cultures as continually creating, re-creating, and renegotiating the imagined boundaries between "e;us"e; and "e;them."e;Drawing on contemporary cultural politics from Western Europe, Canada, and the United States, Benhabib develops a double-track model of deliberative democracy that permits maximum cultural contestation within the official public sphere as well as in and through social movements and the institutions of civil society. Agreeing with political liberals that constitutional and legal universalism should be preserved at the level of polity, she nonetheless contends that such a model is necessary to resolve multicultural conflicts.Analyzing in detail the transformation of citizenship practices in European Union countries, Benhabib concludes that flexible citizenship, certain kinds of legal pluralism and models of institutional powersharing are quite compatible with deliberative democracy, as long as they are in accord with egalitarian reciprocity, voluntary self-ascription, and freedom of exit and association. The Claims of Culture offers invaluable insight to all those, whether students or scholars, lawyers or policymakers, who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.

Autor

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University. Her books include Transformations of Citizenship (The Spinoza Lectures), The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt, and Situating the Self. Among the volumes she has edited are Democracy and Difference (Princeton) and Feminism as Critique

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Annexation • A Theory of Justice • Citizenship • Civil and Political Rights • Civil Society • Colonialism • Conflation • consent of the governed • Consideration • Contemporary Society • Critical theory • cross-cultural • Cultural Anthropology • cultural assimilation • Cultural Communication • Cultural diversity • cultural heritage • Cultural Identity • Culturalism • cultural movement • cultural pluralism • cultural practice • cultural relativism • cultural reproduction • cultural translation • Culture • culture and society • deed • Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy • Dialectic • Discourse Ethics • Emancipation • Equal Opportunity • ethics • ethnic group • Ethnic Origin • Ethnocentrism • Explanation • freedom of speech • Governance • Holism • identity creation • Identity politics • Ideology • Immigration • Individual and group rights • Individualism • Individuation • Institution • interdependence • Language Policy • Legitimacy (political) • Legitimation • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Linguistic prescription • Morality • Moral Relativism • Multiculturalism • Nationality • nation state • Naturalization • normative • Obligation • Original Meaning • overlapping consensus • Philosophy of Language • Political Correctness • Political Liberalism • Political Philosophy • Politics • Positivism • Postmodernism • Precedent • Prerogative • presumption • public reason • Public sphere • Relativism • Religion • rights • right to property • Self-determination • Self-Interest • Self-ownership • separatism • Social reality • Society • Sovereignty • Special Rights • State of nature • stipulation • Subculture • Subjectivity • Subsidy • Suggestion • Territorial principle • Value theory
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18654-5 / 0691186545
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18654-2 / 9780691186542