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Title: Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights by Will Kymlicka ISBN: 0-19-829091-8 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Individual and collective rights
Comment: Kymlicka covers the issues related to each of individual and collective rights, as well as comparing them to each other. He provides a really interesting outlook on the ways in which the quest for rights for any group of people can result in conflict. I suppose I like this book so well because it follows my own philosophical view on people claiming rights in general, that at some point if we were to claim all rights we believe we're entitled to, we would eventually come into conflict with someone else's human rights. As such, we must necessarily make sacrifices of some rights in order to live peaceably among all people. Kymlicka doesn't really say that as I do, but much of what he discusses seems to be related to it.
Rating: 5
Summary: important work
Comment: Along with Tamir's "Liberal Nationalism" and Miller's "On Nationality", "Multicultural Citizenship" is fast becoming a classic work on liberal nationalism. Of the 3, Kymlicka's may be the most clearly laid out. It uses case material, particularly that of aboriginals in Canada, very effectively. A more refined version of some of the arguments presented in "Liberalism, Community, Culture". Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent treatise on a thorny issue
Comment: This is a long-awaited book. Those who believe that the liberal tradition requires a back row, laissez-faire attitude to the problems of minorities are put to flight.
Kymlicka shows clearly that there has been a long tradition of leading liberals who have felt that in order for national minorities to be as free as majorities, they need affirmative action to counteract the all-pervading influence of dominant cultures, through the education system, the media, and the general majority discourse.
He sees the individual's freedom as the right to belong to his of her ancestral group, and this of course means that unless the group's rights are recognised and implemented, the individual that belongs to the group cannot be a free person. Kymlicka distinguishes neatly between minorities whose aim is to be considered and treated as the same as anyone else (that is, anyone belonging to the dominant group): women, Afroamericans, etc.; and between minorities who wish not to lose their differentiated culture and identity: American Indians, Quebeckers, Catalans, Welsh, etc. He points out to majority members that what they take for granted is neither the only worldview possible, nor the best worldview, and defends minorities' right to hold other views, their own.
He is also masterly in drawing the limits to allowing national minorities full control over their own affairs: naturally, no-one should tolerate practices, however ancient, which clash with universal human rights. These include the individual's freedom to leave the group, the rejection of female ablation, etc.
The fact that the book has been published in Catalan attests to its international appeal.
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Title: Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, and Citizenship by Will Kymlicka ISBN: 0199240981 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Multiculturalism by Charles Taylor, Amy Gutmann ISBN: 0691037795 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Liberalism, Community, and Culture by Will Kymlicka ISBN: 0198278713 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Rights of Minority Cultures by Will Kymlicka ISBN: 0198781016 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Democracy and Difference by Seyla Benhabib ISBN: 0691044783 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 08 July, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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