Liberalism, Diversity and Domination: Kant, Mill and the Government of Difference (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108463881)

This study addresses the complex and often fractious relationship between liberal political theory and difference by examining how distinctive liberalisms respond to human diversity. Drawing on published and unpublished writings, private correspondence and lecture notes, the study offers comprehensive reconstructions of Immanuel Kant's and John Stuart Mill's treatment of racial, cultural, gender-based and class-based difference to understand how two leading figures reacted to pluralism, and what contemporary readers might draw from them. The book mounts a qualified defence of Millian liberalism against Kantianism's predominance in contemporary liberal political philosophy, and resists liberalism's implicit association with imperialist domination by showing different divergent responses to diversity. Here are two distinctive liberal visions of moral and political life.

Author: Inder S. Marwah
ISBN-10: 1108463886
ISBN-13: 9781108463881
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2020
Pages: 308
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d