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"Governments today often apologize for past injustices and scholars increasingly debate the issue, with many calling for apologies and reparations. Others suggest that what matters are victims of injustice today, not injustices in the past. Spinner-Halev argues that the problem facing some peoples is not just the injustice of the past, but that they still suffer from injustice today. They experience what he calls enduring injustices, and it is likely that these will persist without action to address them. The history of these injustices matters, not as a way to assign responsibility or because we need to remember more, but in order to understand the nature of the injustice and to help us think of possible ways to overcome it. Suggesting that enduring injustices fall outside the framework of liberal theory, Spinner-Halev spells out the implications of arguments for conceptions of liberal justice and progress, reparations, apologies, state legitimacy and post-nationalism"--

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Limits of Cultural Recognition -- 3 Autonomy and the Religious Life -- 4 Morality and Citizenship -- 5 Educating Citizens and Educating Believers -- 6 The Public Squares -- 7 Identity and Discrimination -- 8 Surviving Diversity -- Notes -- Index.

Will Kymlicka's Liberalism, Community and Culture attempted to explain why cultural identity was important to people, and how liberal theory could accommodate cultural identity. Kymlicka's book argued that minority cultures deserve to have certain kinds of rights to help them survive. Cultural membership, he argued, was such an important good that liberal political theory was amiss in overlooking it; it needed to be amended in order to recognize that the self-respect of most people was tied to cultural membership, and that people needed a secure cultural context in which to make choices. Yet the importance of the self-respect argument fades in Kymlicka's later book Multicultural Citizenship, which gives more emphasis to larger cultural groups that are marked off by language. In this article, I focus on the shift that Kymlicka makes between the two books, arguing that the revisions that Kymlicka made to the argument in Liberalism, Community and Culture were necessary, while making the argument less theoretically satisfying.

Will Kymlicka's Liberalism, Community and Culture attempted to explain why cultural identity was important to people, and how liberal theory could accommodate cultural identity. Kymlicka's book argued that minority cultures deserve to have certain kinds of rights to help them survive. Cultural membership, he argued, was such an important good that liberal political theory was amiss in overlooking it; it needed to be amended in order to recognize that the self-respect of most people was tied to cultural membership, and that people needed a secure cultural context in which to make choices. Yet the importance of the self-respect argument fades in Kymlicka's later book Multicultural Citizenship, which gives more emphasis to larger cultural groups that are marked off by language. In this article, I focus on the shift that Kymlicka makes between the two books, arguing that the revisions that Kymlicka made to the argument in Liberalism, Community and Culture were necessary, while making the argument less theoretically satisfying. ; Prispevek se ukvarja s knjigo Willa Kymlicke Liberalism, Community and Culture, ki skuša pojasniti pomen kulturne identitete za ljudi ter način, na katerega bi jo lahko sprejela liberalna teorija. V knjigi je avtor trdil, da si manjšinske kulture zaslužijo določene pravice, ki jim pomagajo preživeti, in da je kulturna pripadnost tako pomembna dobrina, da se je liberalna politična teorija zmotila, ko jo je spregledala. Za spoznanje, da je samospoštovanje večine ljudi povezano s kulturno pripadnostjo in da za sprejemanje odločitev potrebujejo varen kulturni kontekst, jo je bilo treba dopolniti. Vendar pa argument po samospoštovanju v njegovi poznejši knjigi MulticulturalCitizenship zbledi, saj v njej bolj poudarja večje, z jezikom omejene kulturne skupine. V članku se osredotočam na premik, ki ga je Kymlicka naredil v novejši knjigi, z utemeljitvijo,da so popravki argumenta v knjigi Liberalism, Community and Culture sicer nujni, vendar pa to ni v njegov prid.