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title	:	Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy American Philosophy Series, 1073-2764 ; No. 11
author	:	Singer, Beth J.
publisher	:	Fordham University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0823218686
print isbn13	:	9780823218684
ebook isbn13	:	9780585148427
language	:	English
subject	Human rights, Community, Individualism, Pragmatism.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	JC571.S6285 1999eb
ddc	:	323/.01
subject	:	Human rights, Community, Individualism, Pragmatism.

Page i Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy

Page ii AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY SERIES 1. Peirce and Contemporary Thought, edited by Kenneth Laine Ketner 2. Classic American Philosophers: Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead, ed. Max Fisch, second edition Introduction by Nathan Houser 3. John E. Smith, Experience and God, second edition 4. Vincent G. Potter, Peirce's Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Vincent M. Colapietro 5. Philosophy in Experience: American Philosophy in Transition, ed. Richard E. Hart and Douglas R. Anderson 6. Vincent G. Potter, Charles S. Peirce: On Norms and Ideals, second edition Introduction by Stanley M. Harrison 7. Reason, Experience, and God: John E. Smith in Dialogue, edited by Vincent M. Colapietro 8. Robert J. O'Connell, S.J., William James on The Courage to Believe, second edition 9. Elizabeth Kraus, The Metaphysics of Experience: A Companion to Whitehead's PROCESS AND REALITY, second edition Introduction by Robert C. Neville 10. Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms: A Realistic Assessment, edited by Kenneth R. Westphal

Page iii Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy Beth J. Singer FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 1999

Page iv Copyright 1999 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved. LC 98-23028 ISBN 0-8232-1867-8 (hardcover) ISBN 0-8232-1868-6 (paperback) ISSN 1073-2764 American Philosophy Series, No. 11 Vincent M. Colapietro, Editor Vincent G. Potter (1929-1994), Founding Editor Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Singer, Beth J., 1927 Pragmatism, rights, and democracy / Beth J. Singer. p. cm. (American philosophy series: no. 11) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8232-1867-8 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8232-1868-6 (pbk.) 1. Human rights. 2. Community. 3. Individualism. 4. Pragmatism. I. Title. II. Series JC571.S6285 1999 323'.01dc2198-23028 CIP Printed in the United States of America

Page v To my colleagues and students in the Brooklyn College Philosophy Department

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Preface xi I Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy in the Theory of Rights 1. Four Principles of Traditional Theories of Rights 3 2. An Alternative to the Dominant Tradition 23 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green on Natural Rights 42 II Democracy and Multiculturalism 4. The Democratic Solution to Ethnic Pluralism 61 5. Difference, Otherness, and the Creation of Community 81 6. Multiculturalism, Identity, and Minority Rights: Will Kymlicka and the Concept of Special Rights 92 7. Deep Diversity: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Federalism 108 III Democratic Praxis 8. Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy 121 9. Reconciling Liberalism and Communitarianism 142 Postscript: But I have a Right! 169 Bibliography 187 Index 197

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