| Description |
viii, 237 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Essays collected here were delivered as papers at a conference sponsored by the body Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, held in April 1993 at Michigan State University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Is assimilation dead? / Nathan Glazer -- Limits of pluralism / K. Anthony Appiah -- Meanings for multiculturalism / C. Vann Woodward -- Boutique multiculturalism / Stanley Fish -- Constitutionalism and multiculturalism / Walter Berns -- Majoritarian democracy and cultural minorities / Bernard Boxill -- Democratic multiculturalism / Wilson Carey McWilliams -- Virtues of multiculturalism / Anne Norton -- Multiculturalism and American liberal democracy / James Ceaser -- Liberal democracy, universalism, and multiculturalism / Marc F. Plattner -- Civic education in a changing society / Linda Chavez -- Multiculturalism and civic education / Lorraine Pangle -- What is a classic? / J. M. Coetzee -- Fiction : the power of lies / Mario Vargas Llosa. |
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Democracy.
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Multiculturalism.
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Cultural pluralism.
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| Added Author |
Melzer, Arthur M.
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Weinberger, J.
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Zinman, M. Richard.
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Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy.
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| ISBN |
0700608826 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0700608818 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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