Book Details

Group Rights as Human Rights

Publication year: 2006

: 978-1-4020-4209-6

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Liberal theories have long insisted that cultural diversity in democratic societies can be accommodated through classical liberal tools, in particular through individual rights, and they have often rejected the claims of cultural minorities for group rights as illiberal. Group Rights as Human Rights argues that such a rejection is misguided. Based on a thorough analysis of the concept of group rights, it proposes to overcome the dominant dichotomy between "individual" human rights and "collective" group rights by recognizing that group rights also serve individual interests.


: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Fundamental Rights / group rights / human rights / liberalism / minorities / morality / multiculturalism / politics