| Description |
1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought |
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Routledge studies in social and political thought.
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| Contents |
Cover; How Groups Matter; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Situating Groups, Evaluating Group Rights; 1 Representing Groups; 2 Toleration, Groups, and Multiculturalism; 3 Collective Rights, Public Goods, and Participatory Goods; 4 States' Rights as Group Rights: An Analytical Perspective; 5 Resolving the Dilemma of Group Membership; 6 Groups and Affirmative Action; Part II Groups in Practice: Constructed Identities, Specific Treatments and Legal Recognition; 7 Toleration and Purpose-Built Mosques: Contestations in Contemporary Europe |
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8 Toleration, Respect, and the Cultural Defense9 Political, Not Ethno-Cultural: A Normative Assessment of Roma Identity in Europe; 10 The Emergence and Regulation of Minority Religious Groups in Europe; 11 Beyond Groups? Types of Sharing and Normative Treatment; Bibliography; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
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 po |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bessone, Magali
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Zuolo, Federico
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| ISBN |
9781135085070 |
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1135085072 |
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