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- ISBN 9781782386933
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2015
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.
Paul Dumouchel is Professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He is the author of Le sacrifice inutile essai sur la violence politique (Paris: Flammarion, 2011) and The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (Michigan State University Press, 2014) and co-edited with Rieko Gotoh Against Injustice the New Economics of Amartya Sen (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
