Research Catalog

Title

Group rights / edited by Peter Jones.

Publication

Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2009.

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Additional Authors

• Jones, Peter.
• Jones, Peter, 1945 December 19-

Description

xxix, 537 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

Nowadays, rights are frequently ascribed to groups distinguished by their nationality, culture, religion or language. Rights are also commonly ascribed to institutionalised groups, such as states, businesses, trade unions and private associations. Yet the ascription of rights to groups remains deeply controversial. Many people reject the very idea of group rights. Amongst those who do not, there is radical disagreement about which sorts of group might possess rights and why. Some believe that group rights threaten the freedom and well-being of individuals, while others argue that the rights of groups can complement them. Some claim that group rights can also be human rights; others find that claim incoherent. The contributions making up this volume wrestle with these and many other of the issues that surround group rights. This volume brings together twenty-four of the journal articles that have contributed most significantly to contemporary thinking on group rights.

Series Statement

International library of essays on rights

Uniform Title

International library of essays on rights.

Subject

• Human rights
• Social groups
• Minorities > Civil rights
• Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The corporation as a moral person / Peter A. French -- The moral significance of collective entities / Keith Graham -- Collective interests and collective rights / Dwight G. Newman -- Should communities have rights? Reflections on liberal individualism / Michael McDonald -- Group rights and group oppression / Peter Jones -- Collective rights / Seumas Miller -- Group rights and social ontology / Carol C. Gould -- Two views of collective rights / Leslie Green -- Individuals, groups, and rights to public goods / Denise Reáume -- Do we have a right to common goods? / Andrei Marmor -- Can groups be persons? / Andrew Vincent -- Collective rights? / Jan Narveson
• Some confusions concerning collective rights / Michael Hartney -- Are there any cultural rights / Chandran Kukathas -- Mistresses of their own destiny? / Susan Moller Okin -- Can collective and individual rights coexist? / Leighton McDonald -- Collective rights and individual autonomy / Steven Wall -- Are there collective human rights? / Michael Freeman -- Group rights, human rights, and citizenship / David Miller -- National self-determination / Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz -- The good, the bad, and the intolerable : minority group rights / Will Kymlicka -- The logic of aboriginal rights / Duncan Ivison -- Language laws and collective rights / Nathan Brett -- Collective rights in the liberal state / John Edwards.

ISBN

• 9780754623700 (hbk.)
• 075462370X (hbk.)

OCLC

300401444

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library