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Edward Możejko

Published: 2003-01-01

No. 6 (2003)

A Great Chance or an Illusion. Multiculturalism in the Age of Postmodernity

Edward Możejko

Website: http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/polish/en_mozejko.html

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Edward Możejko

"A Great Chance or an Illusion. Multiculturalism in the Age of Postmodernity"

"A Great Chance or an Illusion. Multiculturalism in the Age of Postmodernity" takes as its starting point a discussion of Charles Taylor's essay "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Recognition". Moiejko, following Taylor, reconstructs the development of the ideological and philosophical foundations of multiculturalism. However, he points to the fundamental difficulty connected with the definition of multiculturalism, the impossibility of solving its ambiguity and reducing its polysemy. Moiejko distinguishes official multiculturalism (characterised by the assumption and recognition of the equality of all cultures in terms of their geography, races and religions) and unofficial multiculturalism (which implies a form of activity meant to prevent the repression of selected social and ethnic groups and their identities). What remains the central issue in all discussions of multiculturalism is our attitude to the Other and the relationships which originate from an encounter with other cultures and identities.

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Możejko, E. (2003). A Great Chance or an Illusion. Multiculturalism in the Age of Postmodernity. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (6). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/2152

Edward Możejko

emozejko@ualberta.ca

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University of Alberta Poland

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Prof. Edward Mozejko is considered the founder of the Polish Programme at the University of Alberta.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor Emeritus of the University of Alberta and Jagiellonian University (Cracow). He is the author of over two hundred publications which are comprised of books, articles and reviews. Prof. Mozejko's research is primarily concentrated on the twentieth century Slavic literatures (Russian, Polish, Bulgarian), comparative study of literature (modernism in particular) and literary theory. His book Socialist Realism. Theory. Evolution. Decline was published in Bonn, Copenhagen, Oslo (1977), and the Polish translation in Cracow (2001). Other noteworthy studies include books and articles on Y.Yovkov, V.P. Aksenov. Cz. Milosz, T. Konwicki and Russian literary constructivism. During the period of 1991-2002, Prof. Mozejko was the editor of the interdisciplinary quarterly Canadian Slavonic Papers. He is also the holder of Doctor honoris causa of Kliment Okhridski Sofia University (Bulgaria)

ER(R)GO nr 6 (1/2003) - dilemmas of multiculturality/dire straits of identity

No. 6 (2003)
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ISSN: 1508-6305

eISSN: 2544-3186

10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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