Kymlicka o kulturnih pravicah in liberalizmu

Kymlicka’s Liberalism, Community, and Culture originated a highly influential argument about the ethical foundations of minority cultural rights. The argument is explained and assessed in its original context and in the more developed form it took in his later book, Multicultural Citizenship. In its original version the argument was seriously underspecified, but the later version cleared up some problems only to create others. Minority cultural rights were either classed as the rights to self-government of national minorities or the rights of immigrants to integration into the receiving society, a form of incorporation that welcomes the retention of hyphenated cultural identities. The argument still left ample room to doubt that nationality suffices to justify self-government and that reasons derived from the value of multicultural integration could really support immigrant rights. Alan Patten’s recent book, Equal Recognition, goes far to remedy these shortcomings while remaining firmly within the liberal paradigm of cultural rights that Kymlicka established with his first book.Will Kymlicka je v knjigi Liberalism, Community and Culture prvi zagovarjal zelo vpliven argument o etičnih temeljih kulturnih pravic manjšin. Ta argument je dodatno pojasnil in ocenil v svoji poznejši knjigi Multicultural Citizenship. V prvotni različici je bil argument precej nedodelan, novejša različica pa je razrešila nekatere težave, vendar za ceno nastanka nekaterih drugih. Manjšinske kulturne pravice so bodisi opredeljene kot pravice do samostojnega upravljanja narodnih manjšin ali kot pravice priseljencev do vključevanja v priseljensko družbo na način, ki upošteva ohranitev kulturnih identitet. Argument še vedno pušča dovolj prostora za dvom, ali nacionalnost v zadostni meri utemeljuje samoupravo ter ali razlogi, ki izhajajo iz multikulturne vključenosti, lahko podpirajo pravice priseljencev. Zadnja knjiga Alana Pattena Equal Recognition gre v odpravi teh pomanjkljivosti še dlje, kljub temu pa trdno ostaja v liberalni paradigmi kulturnih pravic, ki jih je s svojo prvo knjigo utemeljil Kymlicka