The Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of Difference

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1904-0

Hardcover

224 pages

March 2004, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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Interweaves debates arising in the fields of political philosophy and social theory with empirical studies of cultural minorities and social movements, to investigate the political and moral character of identity politics.
Traces the intellectual genealogy and political origins of current liberal theorizing about cultural pluralism and social identity.
Offers a new interpretative framework for understanding and analysing the idea of the politics of identity.
Provides an in-depth, critical assessment of recent pluralist interpretations of liberalism, in particular: multiculturalism; difference-based liberalism; and the politics of recognition.