Mark Redhead is visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Oregon State University.

Cultural diversity today is not an academic issue, but a lived reality for many societies in the grip of globalization. No contemporary thinker has reflected more seriously on this reality than Charles Taylor whose work champions a recognition of 'deep diversity' as an alternative to communal homogeneity and atomistic fragmentation. Redhead examines this perspective on numerous levels—political, philosophical, and personal—thus offering a perceptive entree into the Canadian's complex opus, while also suggesting a more pragmatic solution to some remaining quandaries in that work.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.Chapter 2 The Political Context for a Deeply Diverse VisionChapter 3 The Politics of Deep DiversityChapter 4 Atomism and FragmentationChapter 5 Deep Diversity's DiscontentsChapter 6 Self-Interpreting AnimalsChapter 7 Taylor's Catholic ModernityChapter 8 Thinking Beyond the Limits of Deep Diversity

Mark Redhead is visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Oregon State University.

Cultural diversity today is not an academic issue, but a lived reality for many societies in the grip of globalization. No contemporary thinker has reflected more seriously on this reality than Charles Taylor whose work champions a recognition of 'deep diversity' as an alternative to communal homogeneity and atomistic fragmentation. Redhead examines this perspective on numerous levels—political, philosophical, and personal—thus offering a perceptive entree into the Canadian's complex opus, while also suggesting a more pragmatic solution to some remaining quandaries in that work.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.Chapter 2 The Political Context for a Deeply Diverse VisionChapter 3 The Politics of Deep DiversityChapter 4 Atomism and FragmentationChapter 5 Deep Diversity's DiscontentsChapter 6 Self-Interpreting AnimalsChapter 7 Taylor's Catholic ModernityChapter 8 Thinking Beyond the Limits of Deep Diversity

Mark Redhead is visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Oregon State University.

Cultural diversity today is not an academic issue, but a lived reality for many societies in the grip of globalization. No contemporary thinker has reflected more seriously on this reality than Charles Taylor whose work champions a recognition of 'deep diversity' as an alternative to communal homogeneity and atomistic fragmentation. Redhead examines this perspective on numerous levels—political, philosophical, and personal—thus offering a perceptive entree into the Canadian's complex opus, while also suggesting a more pragmatic solution to some remaining quandaries in that work.

• Chapter 1 Introduction.Chapter 2 The Political Context for a Deeply Diverse VisionChapter 3 The Politics of Deep DiversityChapter 4 Atomism and FragmentationChapter 5 Deep Diversity's DiscontentsChapter 6 Self-Interpreting AnimalsChapter 7 Taylor's Catholic ModernityChapter 8 Thinking Beyond the Limits of Deep Diversity