Multiculturalism in a Liberal State: syllabus
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Week 1
Multiculturalism: Introduction
-Michel Wieviorka, "Is Multiculturalism the Solution?", 21 Ethnic and Racial Studies
(1998) 881
Week 2
Culture, Identity and Multiculturalism
-Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition", in Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition" (1992) 25-73
Week 3
Culture, Identity and Multiculturalism (Continued)
-Avishai Margalit and Moseh Halbertal, "Liberalism and the Right to Culture", 61 Social Research (1994) 491
Week 4
Activist Intervention of the Liberal State: Okin
-Susan Moller Okin, "Feminism and Multiculturalism: Some Tensions", 108 Ethics (1998) 661
Week 5
Activist Intervention of the Liberal State: Okin (Continued)
-Susan Moller Okin, "'Mistresses of Their Own Destiny': Group Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit", 112 Ethics (2002) 205
Week 6
Activist Intervention of the Liberal State: Barry
-Brian Barry, Culture and Equality – An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism (2001) chapter 4
Week 7
Restrained Liberalism: Galston
-William A. Galston, "Two Concepts of Liberalism", 105 Ethics (1995) 516
-William A. Galston, Liberal Pluralism – The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (2002) 3-10
Week 8
Inter-Group and Intra-Group Dialogue
-Bhikhu Parekh, "Minority Practices and Principles of Toleration", 30 Int'l Migration Rev. 251 (1996)
Week 9
Human Rights
-Menachem Mautner, "How Should a Liberal State Treat Non-Liberal Cultural Groups?", Theoretical Inquiries in Law (to be published, 2007)
Week 10
Human Essentialism
-Martha C. Nussbaum, "Human Capabilities, Female Human Rights", in Women, Culture, and Development (Martha C, Nussbaum and Jonathan Glover eds., 1995) 61
Week 11
Political Liberalism: Rawls
-John Rawls, Political Liberalism (1993) 133-172
Week 12
Political Liberalism: Larmore
-Charles Larmore, Political Liberalism, 18 Political Theory (1990) 339
-Charles E. Larmore, Patterns of Moral Complexity (1987) chapter 5
