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How Groups Matter - Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies (Paperback)
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How Groups Matter - Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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When groups feature in political philosophy, it is usually in one
of three contexts: the redressing of past or current injustices
suffered by ethnic or cultural minorities; the nature and scope of
group rights; and questions around how institutions are supposed to
treat a certain specific identity/cultural/ethnic group. What is
missing from these debates is a comprehensive analysis of groups as
both agents and objects of social policies. While this has been
subject to much scrutiny by sociologists and social psychologists,
it has received less attention from a normative and philosophical
point of view. This volume asks: what problems are posed to
political philosophy by a collection of individuals who act or are
treated in a collective way? Focusing not only on ways in which
institutions should treat groups, but also on the normative
implications of considering groups as possible social agents, when
acting either in vertical relations with the state or in horizontal
relations with other groups (or individuals), this book explores
these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives.
Contributors address both the nature of political and social
philosophy itself, and the ways in which specific issues -
affirmative action, race, religion and places of worship, the
rights of states - have become political and social priorities.
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