In theory, republican orthodoxy does not acknowledge the political dignity of any intermediary body between free and equal individuals, stripped of all particularism, and the sovereign nation. This is why, right up to the present, the French public debate has been marked by an entrenched suspicion towards all forms of «communitarism», and by the proscription of the very concept of multicultural politics. But have the policies actually pursued by republican France been consistent with the proclaimed principles? Is it genuinely possible to claim that cultural identities have never been publicly «recognised»? This multidisciplinary investigation proposes to address the ambiguous relations between theory and practice in the Republican management of cultural pluralism.
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Book Title
Multiculturalismo alla francese?
Book Subtitle
Dalla colonizzazione all'immigrazione
Editors
Dino Costantini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
218
Publication Year
2009
Copyright Information
© 2009 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-350-0
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-346-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-350-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-776-1
Series Title
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
Series ISSN
2704-6249
Series E-ISSN
2704-5870