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Multicultural Dialogue : Dilemmas, Paradoxes, Conflicts / Randi Gressgård.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (190 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845456665
  • 9781845458201
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8001 22/eng
LOC classification:
  • HM1271
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dual Subjectivity and the Metaphysics of Purity -- Chapter 2 Non-modern Holism and Modern Totalitarianism -- Chapter 3 Heterogeneity and the Singular Subject -- Chapter 4 Consequences of Heterogeneity -- Chapter 5 Conditions for Dialogue -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managing cultural differences through planned pluralism. This book explores the dilemmas, paradoxes, and conflicts that emerge when differences are managed within this conceptual framework. After a critical investigation of the perceived logic of identity, indicative of Western nation-states and at the root of their pluralistic intentions, the author takes issue with both universalist notions of equality and cultural relativist notions of distinctiveness. However, without identity is it possible to participate in dialogue and form communities? Is there a way out of this impasse? The book argues in favor of communities based on nonidentitarian difference, developed and maintained through open and critical dialogue.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dual Subjectivity and the Metaphysics of Purity -- Chapter 2 Non-modern Holism and Modern Totalitarianism -- Chapter 3 Heterogeneity and the Singular Subject -- Chapter 4 Consequences of Heterogeneity -- Chapter 5 Conditions for Dialogue -- Notes -- References -- Index

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As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness. In response to the greater number of ethnic and religious minority groups, state policies seem to focus on managing cultural differences through planned pluralism. This book explores the dilemmas, paradoxes, and conflicts that emerge when differences are managed within this conceptual framework. After a critical investigation of the perceived logic of identity, indicative of Western nation-states and at the root of their pluralistic intentions, the author takes issue with both universalist notions of equality and cultural relativist notions of distinctiveness. However, without identity is it possible to participate in dialogue and form communities? Is there a way out of this impasse? The book argues in favor of communities based on nonidentitarian difference, developed and maintained through open and critical dialogue.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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