Rights: educational not cultural.
A commentary on Avishai Margalit and Moshe Halbertal's “Liberalism and the Right to Culture,” which appeared in Social Research, vol. 61, 1994, pp. 491-506. The writer contends that the educational program essential to a pluralistic democratic liberal state does not rest on the individual or collec...
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New School for Social Research
Spring 1995
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