CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING OF THE PARADIGMS OF MULTICULTURALISM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35120/kij5801207qKeywords:
multiculturalism, globalization, scales, nation-state, territoryAbstract
The concept of multicultural citizenship is increasingly the subject of philosophical reflections and political debates. No doubt it is the ubiquity of discourses of identity, otherness and difference—and the proliferation of legal claims. On this topic, it is interesting to note that postmodern authors have described the way in which the discourse on alterity dominates the new zeitgeist and thus confirms the dominant place occupied by the paradigm of difference in contemporary thinking about identity: "Ah the others!" That's all some loaded intellectuals have in their mouths! Diversity, otherness, multiculturalism, it grew into a hobby. According to one of the leading analysts in this domain, Jean-Francois Lyotard, in certain cases the topic of multiculturalism grew into cultural business, conferences, interviews, seminars. Today, three leading authorities in the field of multiculturalism are Charles Taylor, Michael Walzer and Will Kymlicka. Their opinion is of great importance for the theoretical directions of multiculturalism and therefore we will try to make some comparative analysis between their notions of this contemporary paradigm.
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