Multicultural Questions [Hardcover]

This volume assembles leading scholars to debate multiculturalism in theory and practice. It discusses the following questions: Is universalism ethnocentric?; Does multiculturalism threaten citizenship?; Do minorities require group rights?; and What can Europe learn from North America? The book aims to answer these questions by moving the debate about multicultural questions into a more consensual mode.

1. Introduction: Multicultural Questions,Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes
2. Is Universalism Ethnocentric?,Martin Hollis
3. Nous et les Autres? 'We' and the 'Others'?,Seyla Benhabib
4. Cultural Pluralism and Partial Citizenship,Jeff Spinner-Halev
5. The Paradox of Multicultural Vulnerability: Identity Groups, the State, and Individual Rights,Ayelet Shachar
6. An Update from the Multiculturalism Wars: Comments on Shachar and Spinner-Halev,Will Kymlicka
7. Liberal Justifications for Ethnic Group Rights,Rainer Baubock
8. Against Collective Rights,Yael Tamir
9. Multiculturalism and American Exceptionalism,Nathan Glazer
10. Minorities and Immigrant Incorporation in France: The State and The Dynamics of Multiculturalism,Martin Schain
11. `Good to Think': The American Reference in French Discourse of Immigration and Ethnicity,Eric Fassin
12. How can we be European? Multicultural Questions in Transatlantic Perspective,Christian Joppke and Steven Lukes

Christian Joppke is Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Florence.

Steven Lukes is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Siena, Italy