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Maîtres Chez Nous: Some Questions about Culture and Continuity

A Response to Alan Patten's “Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

W. JAMES BOOTH
W. JAMES BOOTH*
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
*
W. James Booth is Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University (william.j.booth@vanderbilt.edu).
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Abstract

Alan Patten's social lineage account of cultural continuity is the most recent effort to provide multicultural theory with a non-essentialist concept of culture, its continuity and loss that meets broadly liberal normative desiderata. In this essay, I argue that it too fails to offer an alternative to essentialism, to meet standard liberal normative stipulations, and to construct a theory of continuity sufficient to underpin the present claims of involuntarily incorporated communities. That result is theoretically interesting for it shows the deep intractability of the problems at the core of liberal multiculturalism.

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FORUM: “RETHINKING CULTURE”
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American Political Science Review , Volume 107 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 866 - 874
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013 

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