caa a22 4500 38810774X CHVBK 20180307125344.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0008423900016942 doi S0008423900016942 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0008423900016942 Harty Siobhan Dalhousie University The Nation as a Communal Good: A Nationalist Response to the Liberal Conception of Community [Elektronische Daten] [Siobhan Harty] Recent work in the field of liberal political philosophy has focused on the value of cultural communities for the individual. The claim that liberal theory can give explicit recognition to the fact that individuals are rooted in a social context has produced an important debate about the preservation of minority cultures and a liberal defence of nationalism. This literature should be of interest to scholars of nationalism because liberal theorists have used concepts related to the nation, such as self-determination, in ways that go against conventional usage, and liberal theorists have made claims about the relationship of the right and the good with which some students of nationalism would disagree. This article presents a nationalist response to the liberal conception of community by developing one possible nationalist argument for the priority of the good over the right by claiming that the nation is a communal good. The author illustrates this argument with examples of the political projects of nationalists-in-government in the developed West. Liberals need not be concerned with this reality since democratic institutions will set some limits on nationalist projects by ensuring that they are the outcome of democratic processes. On this view, the importance of self-determination is that it provides the context for the creation of institutions for a debate about the relationship of the right and the good. Self-determination does not, as some liberal nationalists argue, constitute an automatic right to cultural preservation. Copyright © Canadian Political Science Association 1999 Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/4(1999-12), 665-689 0008-4239 32:4<665 1999 32 CJP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900016942 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423900016942 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Harty Siobhan Dalhousie University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Canadian Journal of Political Science Cambridge University Press 32/4(1999-12), 665-689 0008-4239 32:4<665 1999 32 CJP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge