Equality and diversity: Value incommensurability and the politics of recognition
Steven R. Smith
Abstract
This book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. These philosophies are applied to policy and practice debates, especially concerning disability issues, but also relating to gender and multiculturalism.
Keywords: equality, diversity, liberal societies, political philosophy, social philosophy, disability, gender, multiculturalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9781847426079 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781847426079.001.0001 |
