Les communautariens et la critique de l'individualisme libéral, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer

2001 ◽  
pp. 672-681
Author(s):  
Alfredo Gomez-Muller
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Alasdair Macintyre ◽  
Michael Walzer

scholarly journals Sur le multiculturalisme et la politique de la différence identitaire : Taylor, Walzer, Kymlicka

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Gignac
Keyword(s):  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Will Kymlicka

Résumé Les trois pensées politiques analysées tentent de situer le multiculturalisme et la politique de la différence identitaire dans le cadre de la démocratie moderne. De son côté, Charles Taylor soutient que la reconnaissance des identités communautaires peut favoriser la citoyenneté participative et la recherche de biens communs. Michael Walzer, pour sa part, affirme que l’appartenance à une communauté constitue un besoin primordial, aussi important que les droits fondamentaux. Enfin, Will Kymlicka avance que la reconnaissance de droits « différentiels » peut, dans certains cas, permettre d’appliquer l’esprit des principes de base du libéralisme que sont l’autonomie et la liberté des individus. L’article montre de plus que le multiculturalisme contient certains pièges : il peut notamment favoriser les groupes de pression particularistes et les idéologies du ressentiment.

scholarly journals Social Peace and Political Pluralism

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 267-270
Author(s):  
Vereno Brugiatelli
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Practical Wisdom ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
The Political ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Political Pluralism ◽  
Cultural Minority ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
Modern Age

In the modern age cultural and political pluralism received the serious consideration of the Enlightenment philosophers. In the contemporary age, it is the centre of attention of several thinkers that tackle the often dramatic problems related with the misrecognition of rights and freedoms in cultural minority groups. Liberalism in its multiple formulations puts the universal principles that ignore differences at the base of its reflections. Philosophers such as Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer often insisted on the political necessity to face the problem of differences, denouncing the historical and cultural limits of the different forms of liberal universalism. By examining the contraposition between universalism and communitarism, in this paper I intend to give a theoretical solution to such a contrast. In order to outline a perspective able to overcome conflicts in a pacified society, I consider the resources of the recognition of the rights to capabilities, public debate and practical wisdom.

Is Purely Practical Agreement Possible? Maritain’s Mexico City Thesis Answers Some MacIntyrian Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
J. W. Schulz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
The State ◽  
Alasdair Macintyre ◽  
Jacques Maritain

In 1947, Jacques Maritain argued before the UN that “men mutually opposed in their theoretical conceptions can come to a merely practical agreement regarding a list of human rights.” Maritain justified this thesis using a progressive theory of the natural law which rests on a distinction between the natural law as operative in human nature and the natural law as known and articulated. Drawing on Maritain’s 1951 Man and the State, this essay defends a MacIntyrian reading of Maritain’s thesis and its plausibility against four objections from Ralph McInerny, Charles Taylor, and Alasdair MacIntyre himself.

scholarly journals THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION OF THE BRITISH NEW LEFT: “CULTURE” AND THE “MANAGERIAL SOCIETY,”C.1956–1962

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 801-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
FREDDY FOKS
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
New Left ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Sociological Imagination ◽  
Alasdair Macintyre ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Stuart Hall

Castigated as theoretically naive by Perry Anderson, or praised as culturally sensitive by later writers, the political thought of the “first New Left” has often been understood in relation to F. R. Leavis's cultural criticism. This article seeks to reframe the writings of E. P. Thompson, Stuart Hall, Charles Taylor and Alasdair Macintyre from this period as interventions in a fundamentally sociological debate about the nature of capitalism in the managed economy of postwar Britain.

REVISITANDO A CRÍTICA COMUNITARISTA AO LIBERALISMO: SANDEL, RAWLS E TEORIA CRÍTICA

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (131) ◽  
pp. 393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nythamar De Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Axel Honneth ◽  
Normative Reconstruction ◽  
Conception Of The Good ◽  
Michael Sandel

O artigo propõe uma reconstrução normativa da crítica comunitarista ao liberalismo, revisitando a crítica iniciada por Michael Sandel com relação à teoria da justiça em John Rawls e reformulada por “simpatizantes” comunitaristas (Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor, Alaisdair MacIntyre) e pensadores políticos da Teoria Crítica (Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, Axel Honneth), sobretudo quanto aos problemas correlatos do individualismo metodológico, da concepção de bem e da socialidade.Abstract: The article proposes a normative reconstruction of the communitarian critique of liberalism, recasting the critique initiated by Michael Sandel vis à vis John Rawls’s theory of justice and reformulated by communitarian “sympathizers” (Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor, Alaisdair MacIntyre) and political thinkers of Critical Theory (Jürgen Habermas, Seyla Benhabib, Axel Honneth), especially as for the related problems of methodological individualism, the conception of the good, and sociality.

Multicultural Liberals and the Rushdie Affair: A Critique of Kymlicka, Taylor, and Walzer

1999 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel I. O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
Michael Walzer ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Will Kymlicka ◽  
Immanent Critique ◽  
Multicultural Citizenship ◽  
Dual Commitment

This article critically analyzes the work of Will Kymlicka, Charles Taylor, and Michael Walzer, three of the most important contemporary political philosophers writing on issues of multiculturalism. It uses the Rushdie affair, and each theorist's interpretation of it, as the basis for an immanent critique of “multicultural liberalism,” a theory defined by the dual commitment to cultural rights for minority groups and certain core liberal principles, defended in different ways by Kymlicka, Taylor, and Walzer. It is principally concerned with Kymlicka, whose work is one of the most influential attempts to respond to communitarian criticisms that “atomistic” liberalism is inhospitable to community and culture. The article argues that Kymlicka's defense of “multicultural citizenship” is deeply problematic from the perspective of the Rushdie affair. It then considers Taylor and Walzer similarly, as representatives of the communitarian strain of multicultural liberal argument, and likewise finds their positions unconvincing. The article concludes with the suggestion that the Rushdie affair points to a potentially unresolvable tension at the heart of all three attempts to defend multicultural liberalism.

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