Will Kymlicka

Liberalism, Community, and Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

He analyses the rights of minority cultures, in particular the special status of Indian and Inuit in Canada, and concludes that liberalism, properly understood and applied, recognizes the fundamental importance of cultural membership, and endorses various measures undertaken to protect minority cultures.

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Liberalism is often described as a theory about the proper relationship between the individual and the state. But liberalism also contains a broader account of the relationship between the individual and society. Kymlicka here presents the liberal view about the nature and value of community culture in an unusually explicit and systematic way, and links it to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780198275992
• ISBN-10: 0198275994
• Artikelnr.: 21677137

Autorenporträt

Will Kymlicka teaches in philosophy departments at the University of Toronto and Queen's University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
LIBERALISM: Liberalism
The right and the good
COMMUNITY: Communitarianism and the self
Taylor's `Social Thesis'
Marxism and the critique of justice
LIBERALISM AND CULTURAL MEMBERSHIP: Liberalism in culturally plural societies
The value of cultural membership
Equality for minority membership
Equality for minority cultures
Minority rights and liberal tradition
Walzer and minority rights
Communitarianism and minority rights
Apartheid in South Africa
Conclusion