Postcolonial Liberalism
- Author: Duncan Ivison, University of Sydney
- Date Published: December 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521527514
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Postcolonial Liberalism presents a compelling account of the challenges to liberal political theory by claims to cultural and political autonomy and land rights made by indigenous peoples today. It also confronts the sensitive issue of how liberalism has been used to justify and legitimate colonialism. Ivison argues that there is a pressing need to re-shape liberal thought to become more receptive to indigenous aspirations and modes of being. What is distinctive about the book is the middle way it charts between separatism, on the one hand, and assimilation, on the other. These two options present a false dichotomy as to what might constitute a genuinely postcolonial liberal society. In defending this ideal, the book addresses important recent debates over the nature of public reason, justice in multicultural and multinational societies, collective responsibility for the past, and clashes between individual and group rights.
Read more- A major work on one of the central issues in political philosophy/theory for 'New World' countries
- Ivison (a Canadian, but based at the University of Sydney) is one of the stars of political philosophy
Awards
- Winner of the 2004 CB MacPherson Prize of the Canadian Political Science Association
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- Date Published: December 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521527514
- length: 226 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. The postcolonial challenge
3. Reason and community
4. Disagreement and public reason
5. Historical injustice
6. The postcolonial state
7. Land, law and governance
8. Conclusion: the ideal of complex mutual coexistence.
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