About this title: Can multiculturalists be egalitarians and should egalitarians be multiculturalists? Is the absence of cultural recognition an injustice in the same way as the absence of individual rights or basic resources? These are some of the questions considered in this wide-ranging series of essays inspired by the political philosopher Brian Barry. Multiculturalist political theorists and policy-makers argue that liberal egalitarianism fails to take seriously the role of culture and group identity in defining harms and cases of injustice. Because liberal egalitarians adopt a culturally neutral account ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBL
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780745627946ISBN:0745627943
Description: New. Can multiculturalists be egalitarians and should egalitarians be multiculturalists? Is the absence of cultural recognition an injustice in the same way as the absence of individual rights or basic resources? These are some of the questions considered... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780745627946ISBN:0745627943
Description: New. Many thinkers have used liberal egalitarianism's neutrality on issues of culture to criticize contemporary theories of justice. Brian Barry responsed to this approach in "Culture and Equality". This text examines Brian Barry's thesis that egalitarians... read more
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