Liberalism, Diversity and Domination
Kant, Mill and the Government of Difference
Liberalism, Diversity and Domination addresses the complex and often fractious relationship between liberal political theory and human diversity by examining how two distinctive strands of liberalism - Kantian and Millian - respond to pluralism. Drawing on published and unpublished writings, private correspondence, and lecture notes, the book carefully reconstructs Immanuel Kant's and John Stuart Mill's treatments of race, culture, gender, and class to understand how two leading figures reacted to human difference and what contemporary readers might draw from them. Against the predominance of Kantianism in contemporary liberal theory, it mounts a qualified defense of Millian liberalism, retrieving from Mill the resources for a radically pluralist and anti-imperialist liberalism for our contemporary era.
Reviews
Menaka Philips, Contemporary Political Theory, 2020.
Keally McBride, Perspectives on Politics, 18 (2) 2020.
Vince Bagnulo, Review of Politics, 82 (2) 2020.
Jeffrey Church, The Political Theory Review, Oct. 7, 2019 (interview).
D. C. Kolb, Choice Reviews, 57 (4) 2019.
Ludmilla Lorrain, La vie des idées, 2021.
Richard Vernon, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 54 (2) 2021.
Jeffrey Church, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 59 (4) 2021.