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Liberalism, Community, and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Liberalism, Community, and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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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. 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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