Frontiers of Diversity critically examines the explanatory and normative power of pluralism in contemporary philosophy, politics, economics and culture. Based on the papers presented at the âFirst Global Conference on Critical Issues in Pluralismâ at Mansfield College, Oxford, it brings together for the first time essays examining pluralismâs impact, both positive and negative, in each of these critical domains. These essays exhibit something of the fertility of the concept of pluralism, not only across the spectrum of fields, but at all levels of analysis, from individual to social to national and international, touching on specific cases from around the world. Through their diversity, the essays are intended to both promote cross-pollination between these domains of study and experience, and to encourage reflection on pluralism as a powerful cross-disciplinary approach for understanding the contemporary world.
Avery Plaw is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Concordia University in Montreal
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I Philosophical Pluralism
Ronald SANDLER and Cynthia TOWNLEY: A Defense of Tolerance as a Moral Virtue
Nicholas H. SMITH: Is Monotheism Compatible with Pluralism? Reflections on Richard Rortyâs Critique of Religion
Hanako KOYAMA: Political Philosophy and Pluralism in a Globalised World
PART II Political Pluralism
Avery PLAW: Pluralist Imperialism: The Emergent Paradigm of U.S. Foreign Policy
Mark SIVARAJAH: Value-Pluralism and Human Rights
Tara POLZER: Discourses on Immigration in South Africa: Managing Diversity in a New Nation
PART III Economic Pluralism
Anastasia XENIAS: Dollarization in Latin America: The End of Monetary Pluralism
Hasan VALIULLIN: The FDI Space Heterogeneity
Manuel BRANCO: Underdevelopment as Cultural Resistance or Culture as Resistance to Underdevelopment
PART IV Cultural Pluralism
Vijay DEVADAS: Invention as Intervention: Negotiating the Margins of Pluralism
Yianna LIATSOS: Historical Catharsis and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Douglas PRATT: Religious Plurality, Referential Realism and Paradigms of Pluralism