Liberalism, Diversity and Domination - Kant, Mill and the Government of Difference

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Unbending crooked timber; 3. Difference, diversity and exclusion; 4. Democratic character and the affective grounds of politics; 5. Complicating barbarism and civilization; 6. Millian liberalism; 7. Epilogue.

About the author

Inder S. Marwah is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at McMaster University, Ontario. He has published articles in political theory in leading peer-reviewed journals. His research focuses on the intersection of race, empire, and political theory, both in the history of political thought and in the present.

Summary

This book examines how distinctive liberalisms respond to human diversity. It reconstructs Immanuel Kant's and John Stuart Mill's treatments of racial, cultural, and gender-based difference to understand how two of the tradition's leading figures reacted to pluralism, and what contemporary readers might draw from them.

Additional text

'This is a highly important debate and this carefully researched and well-crafted work is a worthy contribution to it. It is worth the investment of time for anyone interested in liberalism, its history, and its relation to difference.' Vince Bagnulo, The Review of Politics

Product details

• Authors: Inder S. Marwah, Inder S. (Mcmaster University Marwah
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781108463881
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46388-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies