Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics

Rights, Democracy, and Fulfillment in the Era of Identity Politics develops a critical theory of human rights and global democracy. Ingram both develops a theory of rights and applies it to a range of concrete and timely issues, such as the persistence of racism in contemporary American society; the emergence of so-called "whiteness theory;" the failure of identity politics; the tensions between emphases on antidiscrimination and affirmative action in the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990; the great unresolved issues of workplace democracy; and the dilemmas of immigration policy for the U.S. and Europe.

Autorentext
David Ingram is professor of philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.

Inhalt
Part 1 Introduction: New Critical Theory: Taking Rights, Democracy, and Identity Politics Seriously
Chapter 2 Human Rights and Differends: The Fragmentation of Reason and Identity in the (Post)modern Age
Part 3 I Identity
Chapter 4 White Man's Burden? Ethnicity and Race in the Era of Identity Politics
Chapter 5 Identity Politics and Law: Reflections on Disability
Part 6 II Deliberative Democracy
Chapter 7 Democracy and Racial Identity: Reconsidering Representation
Chapter 8 Democracy and the Rule of Law: Differends and Crises in Post-Liberal Capitalism
Part 9 III Rights
Chapter 10 Toward a Pragmatist and Perfectionist Theory of Rights
Chapter 11 Human Rights and International Justice
Part 12 Concluding Remarks: Achieving Global Harmony Through Transformative Dialogue