Titlebook: Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation; Volker Kaul Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licens

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Liberal Nationalismk of populism is similar to that of communitarianism, even though the latter denounces the xenophobia, chauvinism and aggressiveness of the populists. Meanwhile, also many liberals believe that the current political crisis can only be explained by the neglect of the idea of the nation in recent deca

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Identity, Difference and Anti-essentialismse attention to subjugated knowledges and the diversity of social and cultural contexts. Foucault individuates the will of the persons, their agency, as the criterion of personal identity, since it does not “force the individual back on himself and ties him to his own identity in a constraining way”

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Agency, Psychology and the Self: The Case of Religious Fundamentalismor religious systems of beliefs and norms. In this regard, it can be distinguished between metaphysical and moral accounts of fundamentalism. First state that fundamentalism makes claims concerning the reality of cultures and religions. Latter hold fundamentalism to be of practical, not of theoretic

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Multiculturalism, Islam and Suicide Bombersme to justify suicide bombing and terrorism. My thesis is that none of the contemporary multicultural theories manages to do so, or at least not without collapsing into a Kantian conception of personal autonomy and, consequently, into some standard version of liberalism. Communitarianism, trying to

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Foundations of Multiculturalism (1): Self-Knowledgepression of dissenting individuals by their respective communities on the other hand. Both intercommunitarian and intracommunitarian conflicts find their origin in a communitarian conception of our political, cultural or religious identities. After presenting some of the problems of the communitaria

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Foundations of Multiculturalism (2): Recognitiongnition has epistemological grounds. The second part argues that truth cannot be the ground for cultural recognition. If truth is relative to cultures, then the grounds for recognition cease to apply. If truth is a metaphysical concept, then cultures do not provide the basis for judgment and critici

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Islam and Democracy distinguishes between epistemological theories that, on the one hand, argue that we cannot but access Islam from the point of view of political modernity (Abu Zayd) and those that, on the other hand, maintain that Islam has to correspond to moral reality (El Fadl). Last but not least, it introduces

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Populismerner Müller’s analysis of populism points in the direction of the first approach, which is generally adopted by liberals. Social democrats, on the other hand, prefer to ignore populism and rather focus on key social issues. Last but not least, the radical left sees in a certain form of populism a p