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Recognition of cultural differences in the social public sphere: (A critique of Charles Taylor’s Politics of Recognition)

Document Type : Research Article

Author
Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Abstract
Given the increasing cultural diversity in the Western societies, many political philosophers have tried to study culture and cultural differences in the political arena. One example is Charles Taylor, the Canadian socialist philosopher, whose “Politics of Recognition” and philosophical argument for the recognition of cultural differences in the political arena attracted the attention of many commentators. However, Taylor can be criticized not only for politicizing all cultural differences but also for assuming that the moral necessity of recognizing different cultures arises from their being considered worthy. His argument to prove and limit the necessity of recognizing cultural differences are also untenable. Moreover, his account is confined to geographically concentrated cultural minorities
Keywords
Taylor
culture
identity
recognition and cultural differences
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Existence and Knowledge
Volume 0, Issue 7 - Serial Number 44
January 2004
Pages 127-152