Postethnic America

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One of America's foren^st intellectual historians places multiculturalism in historical perspfecti\^ and sorts out its virtues from its vices.
"David Hollinger's wonderful lucidity and intense moral seriousness, his elegant combination of analytical and historical insight, and his wise unraveling of the knottedVabric of American cultural life: all these virtues, familiar to all who know his earlier work, are here fully on display. I do not ordinarily endorse thejnotion that history can teach us the future; but here, at least, is an historiari who can help us understand where we are going."
—% Anthony Appiah, Harvard University
"Hollinger's is the most perceptive and farsighted discussion of multiculturalism that I have read. What he calls 'the Postethnic perspective' seems exactly what we need." —Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
"Reading this book is like breathing pure mountain air when one has been long in the su^cating valleys of struggles^ver... Tovább

Fülszöveg

current affairs

One of America's foren^st intellectual historians places multiculturalism in historical perspfecti\^ and sorts out its virtues from its vices.
"David Hollinger's wonderful lucidity and intense moral seriousness, his elegant combination of analytical and historical insight, and his wise unraveling of the knottedVabric of American cultural life: all these virtues, familiar to all who know his earlier work, are here fully on display. I do not ordinarily endorse thejnotion that history can teach us the future; but here, at least, is an historiari who can help us understand where we are going."
—% Anthony Appiah, Harvard University
"Hollinger's is the most perceptive and farsighted discussion of multiculturalism that I have read. What he calls 'the Postethnic perspective' seems exactly what we need." —Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
"Reading this book is like breathing pure mountain air when one has been long in the su^cating valleys of struggles^ver identity. The United States has come through earlier battles over group membership in good health. If more people speak like HoHinger, we will do, so once again."
—^Alan The Responsive Community
''Postethnic America is a brilliant little book which^olds the potential to show us how to bring America together." Stanley Katz, President,
American Council of Learned Societies
"Hollinger's deft and persuasive account of the debate over cultural pluralism is intellectually lively and morally sober. History has been defined as 'philosophy teaching by examples,' and Postethnic America fits the bill—intellectual history of the highest quality that serves an admirable public philosophy." —^Alan Ryan, Pi^iceton University
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David A. HoLLfkcER is Professor of History at the Universit^of California at Berkeley. His other books include Science, Jews, andSefyilar Cklture and In the American 11 ovtnce \
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