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Over the past twenty years debate surrounding cultural diversity
has become one of the most active areas of contemporary political
theory and philosophy. The impact of taking cultural diversity
seriously in modern political societies has led to challenges to
the dominance of liberal theory and to a more serious engagement of
political theory with actual political struggles. This volume of
essays by leading political theorists reviews the development of
multiculturalism, surveys the major approaches, addresses the
critical questions posed and highlights new directions in research.
Multiculturalism and Political Theory provides a 'state of the art'
overview for both students and researchers.
Thinking about reasoning suffers from a failure of vision.
Philosophers, social scientists, and others who discuss and analyze
reasoning have a particular activity in view: reasoning to figure
things out, solve problems, and reach judgments. But there is a
different activity we engage in that we call reasoning. We reason
in the course of living together, when we are responsive to those
with whom we live and neither commanding nor deferring to them,
neither manipulating nor ignoring them. Analysis of this second
kind of activity has relied on the tools and frameworks developed
to make sense of the first kind of activity. In this book, Anthony
Simon Laden invites his readers to approach this activity of
reasoning on its own terms. He claims that if we are to truly see
and appreciate the role and value of reasoning in living together,
we need a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning.
According to the social picture of reasoning developed here,
reasoning is a species of conversation, and like casual
conversation is social and ongoing. It is neither defined nor
determined by its end, although it is governed by a set of
characteristic norms. It consists of inviting others to accept that
our words can speak for them as well. Reasoning: A Social Picture
proposes an attractive new approach to thinking about how to live
together, reasonably.
Thinking about reasoning suffers from a failure of vision.
Philosophers, social scientists, and others who discuss and analyze
reasoning have a particular activity in view: reasoning to figure
things out, solve problems, and reach judgments. But there is a
different activity we engage in that we call reasoning. We reason
in the course of living together, when we are responsive to those
with whom we live and neither commanding nor deferring to them,
neither manipulating nor ignoring them. Analysis of this second
kind of activity has relied on the tools and frameworks developed
to make sense of the first kind of activity. In this book, Anthony
Simon Laden invites his readers to approach this activity of
reasoning on its own terms. He claims that if we are to truly see
and appreciate the role and value of reasoning in living together,
we need a new, social picture of the activity of reasoning.
According to the social picture of reasoning developed here,
reasoning is a species of conversation, and like casual
conversation is social and ongoing. It is neither defined nor
determined by its end, although it is governed by a set of
characteristic norms. It consists of inviting others to accept that
our words can speak for them as well. Reasoning: A Social Picture
proposes an attractive new approach to thinking about how to live
together, reasonably.
Over the past twenty years debate surrounding cultural diversity
has become one of the most active areas of contemporary political
theory and philosophy. The impact of taking cultural diversity
seriously in modern political societies has led to challenges to
the dominance of liberal theory and to a more serious engagement of
political theory with actual political struggles. This volume of
essays by leading political theorists reviews the development of
multiculturalism, surveys the major approaches, addresses the
critical questions posed and highlights new directions in research.
Multiculturalism and Political Theory provides a 'state of the art'
overview for both students and researchers.
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