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Defending Diversity : Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives On Pluralism and Multiculturalism
author
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Foster, Lawrence; Herzog, Patricia Susan.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870239112
print isbn13
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9780870239113
ebook isbn13
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9780585083490
language
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English
subject
Multiculturalism--Congresses.
publication date
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1994
lcc
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BD175.5.M84D44 1994eb
ddc
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306.4
subject
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Multiculturalism--Congresses.
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Defending Diversity
Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on Pluralism and Multiculturalism
Edited by Lawrence Foster and Patricia Herzog
University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-50165 ISBN 0-87023-911-2 Designed by Milenda Nan Ok Lee Set in Sabon and Barmeno Extra Bold Display by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Defending diversity : contemporary philosophical perspectives on pluralism and multiculturalism / edited by Lawrence Foster and Patricia Herzog. p. cm. Based on a conference sponsored by the Philosophy Dept. of the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87023-911-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) I. MulticulturalismCongresses. I. Foster, Lawrence, 1939 II. Herzog, Patricia Susan. BD 175.5.M84 1994 306.4dc2093-50165 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Lawrence Blum's "Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, and Community: Reflections on Charles Taylor's 'Politics of Recognition'" is an expanded and revised version of his "Philosophy and the Values of a Multicultural Community," originally published in Teaching Philosophy 14, no. 2 (June 1991), pp. 12734, which is adapted with permission.
Jane Roland Martin's "Curriculum and the Mirror of Knowledge" appeared in a different form in Beyond Liberal Education: Essays in Honor of Paul H. Hirst, ed. Robin Barrow and Patricia White (London: Routledge, 1993).
David B. Wong's "Coping with Moral Conflict and Ambiguity" originally appeared in a slightly different form in Ethics 102 (July 1992), pp. 76384, 1992 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
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Contents
Introduction
1
Coping with Moral Conflict and Ambiguity
David B. Wong
13
Irreconcilable Moral Disagreement
Mitchell Silver
39
A Critique of Adversarial Discourse: Gender as an Aspect of Cultural Difference
Janet Farrell Smith
59
Philosophy, Disability, and Essentialism
Karen Fiser
83
Nationalism and Pluralism in Alain Locke's Social Philosophy
Tommy Lee Lott
103
Relativism and Pluralism: The Case for a Multicultural Curriculum
Lawrence Foster
121
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Curriculum and the Mirror of Knowledge
Jane Roland Martin
137
Does Pluralism Imply Nihilism? or, Isn't It Time to Sacrifice an Ox?
Nelson P. Lande
157
Multiculturalism, Racial Justice, and Community: Reflections on Charles Taylor's "Politics of Recognition"
Lawrence Blum
175
Pluralism and Democracy in the Academy
Patricia S. Mann
207
Contributors
229
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Introduction
While we are composing this introduction to a book on diversity written by philosophers, our colleagues in English and history, sociology and classics, psychology and biology are restlessly circling around the moral and social issues raised by the advent of a new notionmulticulturalismand anxiously worrying at the underlying questions about pluralism and relativism that this multiculturalism brings to the foreground of inquiry. Their restlessness mirrors an unease in society at large, because we live in a time in which previously disempowered and silenced (or perhaps unheard) groups are finding their voices and bringing to our philosophic conversations their own social histories, cultural traditions, and prescriptions for moral behavior. The good life, it seems, has become good lives. We are discovering that the culture of the United States, which many thought was unified, was always manifold, and that what many believed was certain and settled seems now to be irrevocably contested. Even those who had progressed from the metaphor of the melting pot to that of the salad or the smorgasbord find their imaginations straining, because the new metaphors appear inadequate and inappropriate to our developing cultural situation.
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