Equal Recognition The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights 1st Edition by Alan Patten ISBN 0691159378 9780691159379

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ISBN 10: 0691159378 
ISBN 13: 9780691159379
Author: Alan Patten

Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own image, while on the other, cultural minorities press for greater recognition and accommodation. Theories of liberal democracy are at odds about the merits of these competing claims. Multicultural liberals hold that particular minority rights are a requirement of justice conceived of in a broadly liberal fashion. Critics, in turn, have questioned the motivations, coherence, and normative validity of such defenses of multiculturalism. In Equal Recognition, Alan Patten reasserts the case in favor of liberal multiculturalism by developing a new ethical defense of minority rights. Patten seeks to restate the case for liberal multiculturalism in a form that is responsive to the major concerns of critics. He describes a new, nonessentialist account of culture, and he rehabilitates and reconceptualizes the idea of liberal neutrality and uses this idea to develop a distinctive normative argument for minority rights. The book elaborates and applies its core theoretical framework by exploring several important contexts in which minority rights have been considered, including debates about language rights, secession, and immigrant integration. Demonstrating that traditional, nonmulticultural versions of liberalism are unsatisfactory, Equal Recognition will engage readers interested in connections among liberal democracy, nationalism, and current multicultural issues.

Equal Recognition The Moral Foundations of Minority Rights 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Liberalism and the Accommodation of Cultural Diversity
1.1. Competing Interpretations of Liberalism
1.2. Why the Case for Liberal Culturalism Needs to Be Restated
1.3. Four Distinctions, Plus One More
1.4. The Main Argument of the Book
1.5. Overview
2. Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account
2.1. The Dilemma of Essentialism
2.2. The Critique of Essentialism
2.3. Cultural Continuity
2.4. The Social Lineage Account
2.5. Some Related Concepts
2.6. The Normative Significance of Culture: A First Glance
3. Why Does Culture Matter?
3.1. Options Disadvantage
3.2. Culture as Context of Choice
3.3. The Access Account
3.4. The Adequacy Account
3.5. Cultural Preservation versus Fair Treatment of Cultures
4. Liberal Neutrality: A Reinterpretation and Defense
4.1. An Unfashionable Idea
4.2. Neutrality as a Downstream Value
4.3. Conceptions of Neutrality
4.4. Institutions of Neutrality
4.5. The Fairness Justification of Neutrality
4.6. The Value of Self-Determination
4.7. Fairness and Neutral Treatment
5. Equal Recognition
5.1. Justice and Cultural Decline: Three Views
5.2. Recognition
5.3. Recognition and Justice
5.4. Equal Recognition versus Liberal Nationalism
5.5. The Objection from Expensive Tastes
5.6. Is Full Proceduralism Enough?
6. Equal Recognition and Language Rights
6.1. Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
6.2. Three Kinds of Language Rights
6.3. Two Models: Nation Building and Language Preservation
6.4. The Equal Recognition Model
6.5. The Case for Equal Recognition
6.6. The Nation-Building Challenge
6.7. The Language Preservation Challenge—Weak Versions
6.8. The Language Preservation Challenge—Stronger Versions
6.9. Equal Recognition versus the Territoriality Principle
7. Democratic Secession from a Multinational State
7.1. Theories of Secession
7.2. The Failure-of-Recognition Condition
7.3. The Equal Recognition of National Identity
7.4. The Democracy Argument
7.5. The Confederal Alternative
7.6. Practical Implications
8. Immigrants, National Minorities, and Minority Rights
8.1. The Immigrant/National Minority Dichotomy
8.2. How Voluntary Is the Decision to Emigrate?
8.3. Are Cultural Rights Alienable?
8.4. Is the Receiving Society Acting Permissibly?
8.5. The Limits of Voluntary Acceptance

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