Defending diversity : contemporary philosophical perspectives on pluralism and multiculturalism / edited by Lawrence Foster and Patricia Herzog.

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TextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 230 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585083495
9780585083490
1122053819
9781122053815

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Defending diversity.DDC classification:

306.4 20

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BD175.5.M84 D44 1994eb

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BD 175.5 .M84

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08.42
5,1
CC 8200
MR 7100
71.52
361.5
361.5

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Contents:

Coping with moral conflict and ambiguity / David B. Wong -- Irreconcilable moral disagreement / Mitchell Silver -- A critique of adversarial discourse : gender as an aspect of cultural difference / Janet Farrell Smith -- Philosophy, disability, and essentialism / Karen Fiser -- Nationalism and pluralism in Alain Locke's social philosophy / Tommy Lee Lott -- Relativism and pluralism : the case for a multicultural curriculum / Lawrence Foster -- Curriculum and the mirror of knowledge / Jane Roland Martin -- Does pluralism imply nihilism? or, Isn't it time to sacrifice an ox? / Nelson P. Lande -- Multiculturalism, racial justice, and community : reflections on Charles Taylor's "Politics of recognition" / Lawrence Blum -- Pluralism and democracy in the academy / Patricia S. Mann.

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Summary: In recent years the implications of "multiculturalism" for American society have been the subject of much debate. To some, the term has come to denote the fragmentation of tradition and the coherent values that derive from it. To others, it signals the advent of a more inclusive, tolerant, and genuinely democratic society. Drawing on philosophy's longstanding concern with issues of pluralism and relativism, on the traditions of American pragmatism, and on modern theoretical innovations, the essays in this volume bring clarity to this discussion by analyzing the underlying values and assumptions of each side. They present a varied, insightful, and well-reasoned defense of the virtues of diversity, outside as well as inside the walls of the academy.

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In recent years the implications of "multiculturalism" for American society have been the subject of much debate. To some, the term has come to denote the fragmentation of tradition and the coherent values that derive from it. To others, it signals the advent of a more inclusive, tolerant, and genuinely democratic society. Drawing on philosophy's longstanding concern with issues of pluralism and relativism, on the traditions of American pragmatism, and on modern theoretical innovations, the essays in this volume bring clarity to this discussion by analyzing the underlying values and assumptions of each side. They present a varied, insightful, and well-reasoned defense of the virtues of diversity, outside as well as inside the walls of the academy.

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