Introduction: What’s Wrong with Multiculturalism?

There is a growing awareness that other cultures, non-European, non-Western cultures must be met by means other than conquest or domination … This awareness will have to translate into a type of intellectual work different from that of the modernist intellectual who typically spoke with the confidence of standing at the cutting edge of time and of being able to speak for others. (Huyssens, 1986, p. 220)