The author provides an analysis of the relevance of British philosopher Isaiah Berlin's writing to education, particularly on the apparently conflicting aims of liberal pluralism and multiculturalism in schools.
"This book determines the boundary between parochial and cosmopolitan justice. To what extent should law recognize or support the political, historical, cultural, and economic differences among nations? Ten lawyers and philosophers from five continents consider whether certain s…
Truth and pluralism
A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and fills a void by presenting a lively conceptual and historical map of how we think about the emerging socio-political world, and above all how we think politically about human cultural differences. Here is a rare …
Feminist discourse - Canadian francophone minority - pluralism.
'Rethinking Pluralism' suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with…
What does it mean to be from somewhere? If most people in the USA are "from somewhere else" what is an American homeland? In answering these questions, the contributors to this discussion offer a geographical vision of territory and the formation of discrete communities in the U…
