The Politics of Identity: Liberal Political Theory and the Dilemmas of DifferenceISBN: 978-0-7456-1904-0
Hardcover
224 pages
June 2004, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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British Journal of Sociology
“Michael Kenny identifies, analysis and deftly cuts
through the obstacles that have heretofore impeded or precluded
communication between Kantian-universalist liberals, on the one
hand, and multicultural particularists, on the other. Although
ultimately siding with the former over the latter, Kenny
nevertheless shows very nicely how and what liberals can learn from
multiculturalists. The politics of Identity is a timely and
welcomed contribution to one of the central theoretical and
political debate of our time.”
Terrance Wall, Arizona State University
“An authoritative, detailed and lucid examination of one of
the key questions preoccupying political philosophers and policy
makers alike. No better account of the challenges posed to
Anglophone liberal philosophy by the politics of identity has been
provided.”
Jeremy Jennings, Birmingham University
“The politics of Identity sensitively argues that liberals
and their multicultural critics have over inflate the difference
between themselves, reducing each others position to unnuanced
caricatures. As a consequence, identity politics wrongly appears
wholly incompatible and threatening to liberal political theory.
For Kenny, liberalism has always been conceptually more robust and
more flexible than both its opponents and even proponents have
recognized, and this is because, in part, both liberals and their
detractors. have lost sight of the richly textured contours of the
liberal traditions. This book has long been overdue.”
David Weinstein, Wake Forest University