{"product_id":"liberals-and-cannibals-the-implications-of-diversity-9781859845950","title":"Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism. How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from the widely condemned relativism  more specifically  the double bind of ethnocentric universalism  or liberalism for the Liberals  cannibalism for the cannibals.  Taking as his starting point Robert Frosts accusation that a liberal is someone who cant take his own side in an argument  Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism  Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy  he examines the nature of social justice  the politics of identity and human rights theory  as well as discussing how ideas drawn from the work of Isaiah Berlin can shed light on these debates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45272532942901,"sku":"ByrdShop_1859845959","price":96.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781859845950.jpg?v=1780481032","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/liberals-and-cannibals-the-implications-of-diversity-9781859845950","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}