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Lecture Announcement: Taylor at San Diego

By Lawrence Solum

Charles Taylor will be giving the Kyoto Prize lecture at the University of San Diego on Friday, March 20. Here at the details:

Dr. Charles Margrave Taylor
Democracy and Exclusion: The Darker Side of Political Identity
Democracy generates pressures toward exclusion as well as inclusion. In a democracy, being in the majority has decisive importance. So a society is forced to define a collective identity to which a majority can subscribe. But, what happens to those whose difference threatens the dominant identity ? immigrants, cultural minorities, or those who cherish a non-standard version of the dominant identity?

University of San Diego Shiley Theatre
Friday, March 20, 2009
10:30AM
The Symposium is free, but you must register in advance at: www.kyotoprize.org

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).