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Pragmatism, rights, and democracy

Beth J. Singer 1999 © Fordham University Press
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  • Fordham American Philosophy
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  • 9780823282821 (ebook)
  • 9780823218677 (hardcover)
  • 9780823218684 (paper)
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  • Philosophy
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • I ORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXY IN THE THEORY OF RIGHTS
    • 1. Four Principles of Traditional Theories of Rights (page 3)
    • 2. An Alternative to the Dominant Tradition (page 23)
    • 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green on Natural rights (page 42)
  • II DEMOCRACY AND MULTICULTURALISM
    • 4. The Democratic Solution to Ethnic Pluralism (page 61)
    • 5. Difference, Otherness, and the Creation of Community (page 81)
    • 6. Multiculturalism, Identity, and Minority Rights: Will Kymlicka and the Concept of Special Rights (page 92)
    • 7. Deep Diversity: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Federalism (page 108)
  • III DEMOCRATIC PRAXIS
    • 8. Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy (page 121)
    • 9. Reconciling Liberalism and Communitarianism (page 142)
  • Postscript: But I Have a Right! (page 169)
  • Bibliography (page 187)
  • Index (page 197)
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ET 110.3 (Apr. 2000): 663 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/233345
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