Minorities: Community and Identity

Language: English

Published by Springer, Springer Dez 2011, 2011

364269313X / 9783642693137

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -they belong. Do communities have rights, indeed even an existence, which are not merely the hypostasis of the individual rights and existences collected in them This conflict is then more striking as it was a conscious decision of the or ganizers of the workshop to focus attention on what might broadly be called liberal democracies: those societies which share a commitment to the princi ples of democratic participation, to the right of equal concern and respect of all members of the community, and to the basic liberties of association, ex pression, and thought. Ours was not the smug premise, however, that every so ciety which proclaims these principles is sufficiently or even truly devoted to them. But we did assume that we would have enough to do if we explored the implications of these widely shared ideals for the topic of linguistic, ethnic, and national minorities as these problems arise in societies where an appeal to them is not an empty gesture. The nations from which our participants were drawn are societies in which appeal to these principles has some point. They are all societies in which the efforts of politicians and the intelligence of schol ars need not be devoted exclusively to the tactical issues of winning some mod icum of respect for basic human rights from unwilling regimes. And yet all these societies have experienced significant difficulty in determining what the concrete meaning in actual situations of these general principles might be. 436 pp. Englisch.…

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Title
Minorities: Community and Identity
Author
A. M. A. Dummett
Publisher
Springer, Springer Dez 2011
Publication year
2011
Condition
Neu
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
364269313X
ISBN 13
9783642693137
Item weight
560 grams
Dimensions
210x148x24 mm

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