The Plural States of Recognition

Critical reflections by established academics on the crisis of multiculturalism that occurred in Great Britain, Netherlands and Canada. It provides an occasion to develop a sophisticated understanding of societies characterized by religious, ethnic and cultural diversity.

Introduction; M.Seymour Aristotle and Hegel on Recognition and Friendship; R.R.Williams Hegel, Taylor and the Phenomenology of Broken Spirits; R.Bhargava Respect as Recognition: Some Political Implications; A.E.Galeotti Esteem for Contributions to the Common Good: The Role of Personifying Attitudes and Instrumental Value; H.Ikäheimo & A.Laitinen Models of Democracy and the Politics of Recognition: Respect for Reasonable Cultural Diversity as a Principle of Political Morality; S.Thompson Respect for Reasonable Cultural Diversity as a Principle of Political Morality; J.Maclure Difference, Multi and Equality; T.Modood Political Liberalism and the Recognition of Peoples; M.Seymour Multicultural Manners; J.T.Levy The Public Assessment of Indigenous Identity; A.Eisenberg Conclusion; M.Seymour

RAJEEV BHARGAVA Senior Fellow and Director of the Programme of Social and Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India AVIGAIL EISENBERG Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Faculty Associate in the Indigenous Governance program at the University of Victoria, Canada ANNA ELISABETTA GALEOTTI Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Studi Umanistici, University of Piemonte Orientale in Vercelli, Italy HEIKKI IKÄHEIMO Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia. ARTO LAITINEN Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Finland JACOB T. LEVY Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, Canada JOCELYN MACLURE Professor in the Faculté of Philosophy, Université Laval, Canada TARIQ MODOOD Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK SIMON THOMPSON Senior Lecturer in Politics, and Fellow of the Centre for Psycho-social Studies at the University of the West of England, UK ROBERT R. WILLIAMS Affiliate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois, USA