Sentences with phrase «of multiculturalist»

Another eminent leftist, Nat Hentoff, who supports much of the multiculturalist agenda, on its excesses:

The emergence of a multiculturalist, strongly feminist «Barthian» trend in theology is a most welcome development in a field that has known more than its share of stodgy antifeminists.

Not exact matches

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

Again, in this regard Bloom shares common ground with those multiculturalists who, in relativizing all cultures, undermine the logic of attachment to any one of them over the other.

Introduction:... multiculturalists who strive to constitute non-discriminatory minority identities can not simply do so by affirming the place they occupy, or by returning to an «unmarked» authentic origin or pre-text: their recognition requires the negotiation of a dangerous indeterminacy, since the too - visible presence of the other underwrites the authentic national subject but can never...

Ultimately, however, the greatest testimony to the «Greek spirit» so oft derided by the postmodernist or multiculturalist critic is the critic himself, whose life and mind are what they are because of the Greeks....

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

Even modest programs of redistributionism have been abandoned as intellectuals on the left have wasted their energies in promoting multiculturalist distractions, obscurantist cultural studies that have turned the academy into a narcissistic playpen, and communitarian platitudes that claim to bridge the divide between left and right.

... multiculturalists who strive to constitute non-discriminatory minority identities can not simply do so by affirming the place they occupy, or by returning to an «unmarked» authentic origin or pre-text: their recognition requires the negotiation of a dangerous indeterminacy, since the too - visible presence of the other underwrites the authentic national subject but can never guarantee its visibility or truth.

In my experience, very few professors and university administrators buy into Marxism, multiculturalist ideologies, or other forms of academic radicalism.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

If multiculturalism is to promote the flourishing of a diversity of particularities, then multiculturalists» support for vouchers would seem to necessarily follow.

«First she angered the Marxist historians, and later the fans of progressive education and the multiculturalists,» said Jeffrey E. Mirel, a professor of education and history at the University of Michigan.

Or does the gesture become a multiculturalist token of assimilation, an exotic garnish that helps to erase the trauma of conquest, exploitation, and slavery?»