Liberalism, Community, and Culture

Zusatztext Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above. Informationen zum Autor Will Kymlicka teaches in philosophy departments at the University of Toronto and Queen's University, Canada Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This study presents a liberal view about the nature and value of community and culture, and links it to more familiar views on individual rights and state neutrality. The author argues that liberalism when properly applied permits the legal constraints necessary to protect ethnic minorities. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Will Kymlicka, Will (Research Director Kymlicka, Kymlicka Will
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.1989
• EAN: 9780198275992
• ISBN: 978-0-19-827599-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politikwissenschaft, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies