Explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. This work examines the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at the cultural and political boundaries which exist in gender, race, class and sex…
Explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. This work examines the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at the cultural and political boundaries which exist in gender, race, class and sex…
Alternative modernities
by Chakrabarty, Dipesh, Niranjana, Tejaswini, Gaonkar, Dilip, Wachtel, Andrew Baruch
fromPublic culture
"The problem of value pluralism permeates modern political philosophy. Its presence can be felt even when it is not explicitly the central topic under investigation. Political thinkers such as Max Weber, Isaiah Berlin and Stuart Hampshire derive pessimistic, sometimes tragic, co…
Cet ouvrage à voix plurielles se place resolument dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Neuf auteurs de premier plan, oeuvrant sous des horizons diversifies, se confrontent à la crise actuelle de la democratie. Une these centrale ordonne le travail d'analyse : cette crise tir…
Avant-propos -- 1. Voix discordantes dans la philosophie politique contemporaine -- 2. La guerre des dieux : remarques sur les fondements philosophiques du multiculturalisme -- 3. Raison publique, raisons non publiques : les citoyens liberaux et leurs convictions morales -- 4. D…
Cet ouvrage à voix plurielles se place resolument dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Neuf auteurs de premier plan, oeuvrant sous des horizons diversifies, se confrontent à la crise actuelle de la democratie. Une these centrale ordonne le travail d'analyse : cette crise tir…
This study explores pluralism in early states, modern industrial societies, and the contemporary 'postmodern' world, and the ways in which different social and political forms cope with ethnic and cultural diversity.
Coincé entre le vertige qu'inspire le marché mondial et la logique du repli sur les acquis, l'homme n'est plus citoyen mais sujet, un individu à la fois soucieux de son épanouissement personnel et de son insertion dans le monde de la technique et de la production. Et ce sujet ap…
The Rights of minority cultures
This text collects together the most important contemporary articles on the rights of minority cultures. While drawing on particular case studies, the articles focus on the more general theoretical and normative issues raised by the accommodation of cultural differences.
The Rights of minority cultures
This text collects together the most important contemporary articles on the rights of minority cultures. While drawing on particular case studies, the articles focus on the more general theoretical and normative issues raised by the accommodation of cultural differences.