Introduction: Multiculturalism as a public ideal / Duncan Ivison -- Part 1. Foundations: Liberal multiculturalism / Geoffrey Brahm Levey ; Multiculturalism and political morality / Jocelyn Maclure ; Multiculturalism and political ontology / Paul Patton -- Part 2. Challenges: Diversity and the limits of liberal toleration / James M. Besch ; Multiculturalism and the social sphere / Barbara Arneil and Fiona MacDonald ; Multiculturalism, gender and justice ; Abigail Eisenberg ; Multiculturalism, pluralism and democracy / James Bohman ; Multiculturalism and recognition / Nicholas H. Smith ; Postcolonial multiculturalism / Monica Mookherje ; Conditional multiculturalism: Islam in liberal democratic states / Michael Humphrey ; Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism / Charles Jones -- Part 3. Alternative perspectives: Intercultural relations at the limits of multicultural governmentality / Ghassan Hage ; Security warning: Multiculturalism alert! / Rita Kaur Dhamoon ; Master Kong versus Master Mo: Two views of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism in the early Chinese philosophical tradition / Jeffrey Riegel.