Habermas, Jurgen : Johann Wolfgang GoetheUniversity
Rockefeller, Steven C. : Middlebury College
Walzer, Michael : Princeton University
Wolf, Susan : Johns Hopkins University
Gutmann, Amy : Rockefeller University
Review
"Original and important.... The essays by Taylor and the other contributors raise the debate to a new level,
providing it with the high moral seriousness it deserves."
--Lawrence Blum, Boston Review
"Multiculturalism ... is packed with depth, intelligence, and (to revive an oldfashioned word) wisdom....
It is highly relevant to pressing debates about nationalism and its identity."
--Michael Saward, The Times Higher Education Supplement
"[Taylor's] comments about multiculturalism in particular demonstrate his knack for finding sensible middle
ground between unreasonable extremes.... His writing here is clear, direct, and refreshingly free of philosophical
jargon. He is also delightfully nonpartisan."
--David McCabe, Commonweal
"Multiculturalism . . . is packed with depth, intelligence, and (to revive an oldfashioned word) wisdom.
. . ."
--Michael Saward, The Times Higher Education Supplement
"[Taylor's] comments about multiculturalism . . . demonstrate his knack for finding sensible middle ground
between unreasonable extremes. . . . His writing here is clear, direct, and refreshingly free of philosophical
jargon. He is also delightfully nonpartisan."
--David McCabe, Commonweal
". . . engaging, thoughtprovoking, suggestive, full of insights on questions of intellectual history, philosophical
and moral psychology, and current issues in political philosophy and practice."
--Ethics
"Because it impinges upon so muchfrom campus speech to bilingual education to the causes and effects of
political correctnessthe current discussion on multiculturalism is essential to understanding Western academic
culture as it exists today (and as it will exist in the future). This book is a valuable guide to the complexities
involved."
--Washington Times
Submitted by Publisher, April, 2002.
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
Preface (1994)
Preface and Acknowledgments
PART ONE 1 Introduction Amy Gutmann
The Politics of Recognition Charles Taylor
Comment Susan Wolf
Comment Steven C. Rockefeller
Comment Michael Walzer
PART TWO
Struggles for Recognition in the Democratic Constitutional State Jurgen Habermas Translated by Shierry Weber Nicholsen
Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction K. Anthony Appiah
Contributors
Index
