Recognition and Difference Politics, Identity, Multiculture [Hardcover]

Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding contributors such as Fraser, Honneth, O'Neill, Bauman, Lister, Gilroy and De Swann to explore how difference and multiculturalism take on the arguments of universalist humanism. The approach taken derives from the traditions of cultural sociology and cultural studies rather than political science and philosophy.

The book takes seriously the argument that the social bond and recognition are in danger through globalization and deterritorialization. It is a major contribution to the emerging debate on the form of post-national forms of civil society.Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures.Recognition and Difference - Scott Lash and Mike Featherstone
Politics, Identity, Multiculture
PART ONE: RECOGNITION
Recognition without Ethics? - Nancy Fraser
Recognition or Redistribution? - Axel Honneth
Changing Perspectives on the Moral Order of Society
Recognition and the Politics of Human(e) Desire - Majid Yar
Oh, My Others! There Is No Other - John O'Neill
Capital Culture, Class and Other-Wiseness
Towards a Citizen's Welfare State - Ruth Lister
The 3 + 2 `R's of Welfare Reform
From Community to Coalition - Sylvia Walby
The Politics of Recognition as the Handmaiden of the Politics of Equality in an Era of Globalization
PART TWO: DIFFERENCE
The Great War of Recognition - Zygmunt Bauman
Joined-Up Politics and Post-Colonial Melanchol“!