Multiculturalism disturbs the settled liberal-communitarian debate

Evidence

A third disruptive effect of “the multicultural question” is its challenge to the dominant discourses of Western political theory and the foundations of the liberal state. In the face of the dissemination of unstable differences, the settled argument between liberals and communitarians, which now dominates the Western political tradition, has been seriously disturbed. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 356

Categorization

• DEFINE: Identifies the liberal-communitarian framing that multiculturalism disrupts — a key scaffold for reading later critiques.
• XREF: connects to: Multiculturalism backlash aims to stop epistemology from being questioned in class — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 272