The paraphrasing of Martha Nussbaum's thoughts near the end of this article seems to contain its essential message: "The world-citizen view insists on the need

The paraphrasing of Martha Nussbaum's thoughts near the end of this article seems to contain its essential message: "The world-citizen view insists on the need for all citizens to understand differences. … It is connected with a conception of democratic debate as deliberation about the common good. The identity-politics view, by contrast, depicts the citizen body as a marketplace of identity-based interest groups jockeying for power, and views difference as something to be affirmed rather than understood."