Law, justice, democracy, and the clash of cultures : a pluralist account /

"The Cold War ideological battle with universal aspirations has given way to a clash of cultures as the world concurrently moves toward globalization of economies and communications and balkanization through a clash of ethnic and cultural identities. Traditional liberal theory has confronted da...

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Main Author: Rosenfeld, Michel, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Liberal justice and fleeting specters of unity. Reframing comprehensive pluralism : Hegel versus Rawls ; Equality and the dialectic between identity and difference ; Human rights and the clash between universalism and relativism: the case of minority group rights
  • pt. 2. E pluribus unum? Spinoza's dialectic and the paradoxes of tolerance : can unity be willed out of necessity? ; The clash between deprivatized religion and relativized secularism : the constitutional conundrum ; Dworkin and the one law principle: can unity be imposed through an interpretive turn?
  • pt. 3. Can pluralism thrive in times of stress? : On globalization, terror and the clash of cultures. Rethinking political rights in times of stress : can pluralism thwart the progression from stress to crisis? ; Derrida's deconstructive ethics of difference confronts global terrorism : can democracy survive the autoimmune ravage of the terror within us? ; Habermas's discourse ethics of identity and global terror : can cosmopolitanism, postnationalism, and dialogue downsize the terrorist threat? ; Conclusion. The hopes of pluralism in a more unified and more fragmented world