Pluralism : against the demand for consensus / Nicholas Rescher.

The author explores the utopian tendency to put a high value on consensus whil rejectng the facile relativism that pervades contemporary social and academic life. He advocates instead the more realistic and pragmatic approach of pluralism: society should accept and accommodate its internal differenc...

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Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2000.
Series:Clarendon library of logic and philosophy.
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