This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position ofminorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus onminority rights and recognition. For the first time, it bringstogether leading international authorities on ethnicity,nationalism and minority rights from both social and politicaltheory, with the specific aim of fostering further debate betweenthe disciplines. In their introduction, the editors explore theways in which politics and sociology can complement each other inunravelling the many contradictory aspects of complex phenomena.Topics addressed include the constructed nature of ethnicity, itsrelation to class and to 'new racism', different forms ofnationalism, self determination and indigenous politics, thepolitics of recognition versus the politics of redistribution, andthe re-emergence of cosmopolitanism. This book is essential readingfor all those involved in the study of ethnicity, nationalism andminority rights.

This book offers the first full-length study of philosophicaldialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains whyimportant philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume- and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote inand about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, afterHume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoesradical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the BritishEnlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and oftenbelligerent debate about the nature and proper management ofdialogue; and it shows how the writing of philosophical fictionsrelates to the rise of the novel and the emergence of philosophicalaesthetics. Novelists such as Fielding, Sterne, Johnson and Austenare placed in a philosophical context, and philosophers of theempiricist tradition in the context of English literaryhistory.