Secularism, Assimilation and the Crisis of Multiculturalism

French Modernist Legacies

von Yolande Jansen

340 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This remarkable study develops a theoretical critique of contemporary discourses on secularism and assimilation, arguing that the perspective of assimilating distinct religious minorities by incorporating them into a secular and supposedly neutral public sphere may be self-subverting. To flesh out this insight, Jansen draws on the paradoxes of assimilation as experienced by the French Jews in the late 19th century through a contextualised reading of Proust's In Search of Lost Time. She proposes a dynamic, critical multiculturalism as an alternative to discourses focusing on secularism, assimilation and integration.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9789089645968
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.11.2013
• Größe: 231 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis