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Culture, Citizenship, and Community

Joseph H. Carens · ISBN 9780198297512
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Publisher Oxford University Press UK
Author(s) Joseph H. Carens
Subtitle A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness
Published 1st May 2000
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A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness

This book contributes to contemporary debates about multiculturalism and democratic theory by reflecting upon the ways in which claims about culture and identity are actually advanced by immigrants, national minorities, aboriginals and other groups in a number of different societies. Carens advocates a contextual approach to theory that explores the implications of theoretical views for actual cases, reflects on the normative principles embedded in practice, and
takes account of the ways in which differences between societies matter. He argues that this sort of contextual approach will show why the conventional liberal understanding of justice as neutrality needs
to be supplemented by a conception of justice as evenhandedness and why the conventional conception of citizenship is an intellectual and moral prison from which we can be liberated by an understanding of citizenship that is more open to multiplicity and that grows out of practices we judge to be just and beneficial.
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