The Problem with Multiculturalism

"John Headley, who spent decades studying and writing on Western Christendom's transformation under the influence of its recovery of the learning of pagan antiquity, is exceedingly well-situated to assess the value of the peculiar cultural heritage of the modern West. In this volume, he deploys his vast erudition and his quick wit to powerful effect." --Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College, author of Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect "John Headley, who spent decades studying and writing on Western Christendom's transformation under the influence of its recovery of the learning of pagan antiquity, is exceedingly well-situated to assess the value of the peculiar cultural heritage of the modern West. In this volume, he deploys his vast erudition and his quick wit to powerful effect." --Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College, author of Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect -John Headley, who spent decades studying and writing on Western Christendom's transformation under the influence of its recovery of the learning of pagan antiquity, is exceedingly well-situated to assess the value of the peculiar cultural heritage of the modern West. In this volume, he deploys his vast erudition and his quick wit to powerful effect.- --Paul A. Rahe, Hillsdale College, author of Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

John M. Headley is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina, USA. His research interests include reform, reform programs, and their reception and distortion, particularly during the Renaissance, Reformation, and seventeenth-century Europe. His books include The Europeanization of the World, The Emperor and His Chancellor, and Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World.

Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Of Civilization: Origin and Development of the Term and the Idea 2 Secularization and the Universalizing Process 3 Christianitas /Civilization 4 New Meanings for the Renaissance and the Reformation 5 Multiculturalism Reconsidered 6 Conclusion: On the Meaning of America Bibliography Index