Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-316) and index.

Table of Contents:
Part I. Liberal Justice and Fleeting Specters of Unity:
1. Reframing comprehensive pluralism: Hegel versus Rawls
2. Equality and the dialectic between identity and difference
3. Human rights and the clash between universalism and relativism: the case of minority group rights
Part II. E Pluribus Unum?:
4. Spinoza's dialectic and the paradoxes of tolerance: can unity be willed out of necessity?
5. The clash between deprivatized religion and relativized secularism: the constitutional conundrum
6. Dworkin and the one law principle: can unity be imposed through an interpretive turn?
Part III. Can Pluralism Thrive in Times of Stress? On Globalization, Terror and the Clash of Cultures:
7. Rethinking political rights in times of stress: can pluralism thwart the progression from stress to crisis?
8. Derrida's deconstructive ethics of difference confronts global terrorism: can democracy survive the autoimmune ravage of the terror within us?
9. Habermas's discourse ethics of identity and global terror: can cosmopolitanism, postnationalism, and dialogue downsize the terrorist threat?
10. Conclusion: the hopes of pluralism in a more unified and more fragmented world.