Liberalism, community, and culture

Will Kymlicka

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. This book presents the liberal view about the nature and value of community and culture in an unusually explicit and systematic way, and links it to more familiar liberal views on individual rights and state neutrality. Critics charge that liberalism suffers from an underlying 'atomistic' or 'abstract' individualism. As a result liberals, in a misguided attempt to promote the dignity and autonomy of the individual, have undermined the very communities and associations which alone can nurture human flourishing and freedom. Professor Kymlicka considers these objections as they are formulated in recent communitarian writings, and as they appear in debates over the rights of minority cultures. In each case, he argues, the resources available within the liberal view of community and culture have been misunderstood and underestimated. 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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[目次]

  • 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

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書名 Liberalism, community, and culture
著作者等 Kymlicka, Will
出版元 Clarendon Press;Oxford University Press
刊行年月 1989
ページ数 280 p.
大きさ 23 cm
ISBN 0198275994
NCID BA07137379
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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