Format:
Online-Ressource (258 p)
ISBN:
9780691120409
Content:
Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of timeless urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to contemporary debates: Do some identity groups undermine the greater democratic good and thus their own legitimacy in a democratic society? Even if so, how is a democracy to fairly distinguish betwee
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Description based upon print version of record
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Identity Politics; CHAPTER ONE: Claims of Cultural Identity Groups; CHAPTER TWO: The Value of Voluntary Groups; CHAPTER THREE: Identification by Ascription; CHAPTER FOUR: Is Religious Identity Special?; CONCLUSION: Integrating Identity in Democracy; NOTES; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400825523
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691120409
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Identity in Democracy
Language:
English
Keywords:
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