Autonomy, Liberalism and the Right to Culture

文化多样性是否或以何种条件可以与自由公民身份和国家认同相协调，是当今自由民主国家面临的最紧迫问题之一。长期致力于多元文化主义的澳大利亚，在其法律和政策制定中每天都面临着这一挑战。这个项目通过提供一种思考个人自治的核心自由价值的位置和重要性的新方式来解决这个问题。现在在政治理论和一些团体中受到相当大的攻击，认为它“过于宗派主义”，这个项目捍卫了自治对自由公民的重要性，同时阐述了它对自由主义者和文化少数群体的道德和政治含义。

The question of whether or on what terms cultural diversity may be reconciled with liberal citizenship and national identity is among the most pressing issues confronting liberal democracies today. Australia, long committed to multiculturalism, faces this challenge daily in its law- and policy-making. This project tackles this question by offering a new way of thinking about the place and import of the core liberal value of individual autonomy. Now under considerable attack in political theory and from some groups for being "too sectarian", the project defends the importance of autonomy to liberal citizenship, while elaborating its moral and political implications for liberals and cultural minorities alike.