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form of pluralism failed as both an explanation of the political reality of diVerence and as a framework for politically embodyi ...

acknowledgment against the monist view. ‘‘[S]ince some values may conXict intrinsically, the very notion that a pattern must in ...

although ignored by seemingly everyone but Berlin in the postwar years, came back to the forefront of pluralist thought in order ...

Pluralism, from its origins, has always gone beyond a recognition of plurality, to a central concern with how such diVerence is ...

Central to pluralist engagement is the attitude that conXict across diVer- ence is to be welcomed, and certainly not avoided. Th ...

contending identities’’ (Connolly 1995 , xvii). Connolly’s ethos is crucial to a viable process of engagement across diVerence. ...

of agonistic engagement. Here, inclusive forms of deliberation are indispens- able in the development of a politics that oVers r ...

4 The Liberalism/Pluralism Debate .............................................................................................. ...

For Berlin, this freedom and recognition for self-deWnition in a plural society is not solely for individuals, but for groups as ...

But not all pluralists agree with this happy marriage, and Gray is perhaps the harshest critic. As much as he admires the attemp ...

Gray’s second major worry regarding the relationship between liberalism and pluralism concerns the singularity of liberalism its ...

the value of diversity. Too often in liberal societies diVerence is seen as a problem or hindrance. Pluralism, on the contrary, ...

5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................... ...

Coker,F. W. 1921. The technique of the pluralist state.American Political Science Review, 15 : 186 – 213. Connolly,W. (ed.) 1969 ...

James,W. 1979 [ 1896 ].The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. K ...

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theory,’’ of which the subject-matter and the method were practically indis- tinguishable. By ‘‘political thought’’ (and therefo ...

autonomous mode of historical enquiry. The writing of texts, the slower for- mation of belief systems or ‘‘philosophies,’’ were ...