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Cultural Preservation and Liberal Values: A Reply to William James Booth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2013

ALAN PATTEN
ALAN PATTEN*
Affiliation:
Professor of Politics, Princeton University
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Abstract

William James Booth elaborates three main challenges to my social lineage account (Patten 2011). Conceptually, he finds the proposal to be question-beginning. Normatively, he thinks that it has objectionable implications. And, substantively, he claims that the proposal is unhelpful, in that it fails to explain a case of theoretical importance for multiculturalism. In this reply, I argue that each of these challenges misses the target. The social lineage account continues to offer a promising, nonessentialist basis for normative multiculturalism.

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FORUM: “RETHINKING CULTURE”
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American Political Science Review , Volume 107 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 875 - 882
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013 

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