Multiculturalism has become an ambiguous but potent battle cry in
U.S. society, lauded by proponents as a call to tolerate different
cultural traditions and values, and deplored by detractors as an
attack on the highest standards of Western culture. This anthology
explores this controversial social movement from various humanist
perspectives.
Building on an Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, humanists have
critically evaluated all cultures, especially their own. From this
stance, contentions involving race, gender, sexual orientation,
class, religion, ethnicity, and nation can be freshly assessed
among the competing claims of the rapidly hybridizing yet
polarizing world into which we are moving. Although any attempt to
impose a specific vision on this multifarious global community will
clearly fail, a noncritical relativism will just as certainly lead
to anarchy. Humanism's combined use of critical reason in the
developing sciences and an ethical wisdom that transcends past
traditions points toward a way to live and learn together, while
improving ourselves in the process.
Unfortunately, most nations and most religions persist in focusing
on their own perceived superiority, relying on historical claims
and traditional authorities. Humanists make no such claims but
appeal to the potentialities of human values emerging in a
post-traditional world. This volume provides the outlines of the
directions such consensus-building might take. The distinguished
contributors include Khoren Arisian, Vern L. Bullough, Howard
Callaway, Paul Kurtz, Sarah W. Oelberg, Don Page, Howard Radest,
Andreas Rosenberg, Harvey Sarles, Robert B. Tapp, Michael Werner,
and Carol Wintermute.
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