Listing 1 - 10 of 22 << page
of 3
>>
Sort by

Book
The tragedy of liberalism
Author:
ISBN: 058536236X 9780585362366 0791492168 9780791492161 Year: 2000 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Drawing on recent developments in liberal theory, Bert van den Brink develops an alternative defense of liberalism. He argues that liberal theorists should admit that their doctrine is not neutral with regard to conceptions of the good life - that it in fact fosters ideals of personal autonomy and a pluralist environment. These ideals generate irreconcilable, tragic conflicts between liberal and nonliberal ideals, and it is only by taking these conflicts seriously that liberals can learn of the unwanted consequences of liberal doctrine, effectively rebut critics, and react adequately to the complex pluralism of contemporary societies."--Jacket.

Rethinking liberalism.
Author:
ISBN: 1855674858 185567484X Year: 2000 Publisher: London Pinter

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Philosophies of exclusion : liberal political theory and immigration.
Author:
ISBN: 074861219X Year: 2000 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh university press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Moral selfhood in the liberal tradition : the politics of individuality
Author:
ISBN: 1442677376 9781442677371 080204736X 9780802047366 Year: 2000 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Beginning with a wide-ranging discussion of liberal philosophers, Fairfield proposes that liberalism requires a complete reconception of moral selfhood, one that accommodates elements of the contemporary critiques without abandoning liberal individualism.


Book
The meaning of liberalism
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0585457670 9780585457673 9633865018 9789633865019 Year: 2000 Publisher: Budapest, Hungary New York, NY CEU Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"This volume provides a new perspective on the continuing debate about how liberalism should be defined and what it means in countries with an established parliamentary system, particularly in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe." "Contributors come from both sides of the former Iron Curtain and they highlight the richness and diversity of liberalism and discuss different perceptions of liberal thinking in the East and West in the postmodern world." --Book Jacket.

Rethinking liberalism
Author:
ISBN: 1474213154 9786611784089 1281784087 0826425178 9780826425171 185567484X 9781855674844 1855674858 9781855674851 9781474213158 9780826477415 0826477410 9781441116246 1441116249 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Pinter / Continuum

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"This book explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J. S. Mill, through T. H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the pluralism and complexity of modern societies have undermined liberalism's communitarian and ethical assumptions. Studies of the Poll Tax fiasco in Britain, and of the constitutional dilemmas posed by the European Union confirm the contemporary inadequacies of traditional conceptions of liberal democracy. Drawing on Max Weber, Bellamy advocates a return to a Machiavellian approach to politics to resolve the clashes resulting from competing values within complex situations. Unlike Weber however, he concentrates on the republican and democratic aspects of Machiavelli's thought. He proposes a republican strategy whereby the political dispersal of power constrains any ideal or interest from dominating another. Instead, everyone must seek mutually acceptable compromises. The essays in "Rethinking Liberalism" map a passage from the liberal democratic norms and forms characteristic of nineteenth-century nation states, to an agnostic, democratic liberal politics suitable for the transnational and plural societies of the new millennium."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


Book
Diversity and distrust : civic education in a multicultural democracy
Author:
ISBN: 0674040406 9780674040403 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Diversity and Distrust aims to provide an important resource in the debate about the reform of public education, and in the culture war over the future of liberalism. What should the aims of education policy be in the United States and other culturally diverse democracies? Should the foremost aim be to allow the flourishing of social and religious diversity? Or is it more important to foster shared political values and civic virtues? Stephen Macedo believes that diversity should usually, but not always, be highly valued. We must remember, he insists, that many forms of social and religious diversity are at odds with basic commitments to liberty, equality, and civic flourishing. Liberalism has an important but neglected civic dimension, he argues, and liberal democrats must take care to promote not only well-ordered institutions but also well-ordered citizens. Macedo shows that this responsibility is incompatible with a neutral or hands-off stance toward diversity in general or toward the education of children in particular. Extending the ideas of John Rawls, he defends a "civic liberalism" that supports the legitimacy of reasonable efforts to inculcate shared political virtues while leaving many larger questions of meaning and value to private communities. Macedo's tough-minded liberal agenda for civic education offers a fundamental challenge to free market libertarians, the religious right, parental rights activists, postmodernists, and many of those who call themselves multiculturalists. This book will become an important resource in the debate about the reform of public education, and in the culture war over the future of liberalism.

The idea of a political liberalism : essays on Rawls
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0847687945 9780847687947 Year: 2000 Volume: *11 Publisher: Lanham, MD Oxford Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Toleration, diversity, and global justice
Author:
ISBN: 0271020679 9780271020679 Year: 2000 Publisher: University Park Pennsylvania State university press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Libéralisme
Author:
ISBN: 2738108091 9782738108098 Year: 2000 Publisher: Paris : Odile Jacob,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Que vous soyez pour ou contre, de droite ou de gauche, vous croyez tout savoir sur le libéralisme, "sauvage" pour les uns, "salutaire" pour les autres. Mais pourquoi faut-il supprimer la législation sur la concurrence, instaurer la liberté d’immigration, supprimer le monopole de la Sécurité sociale ou encore recourir aux privatisations pour résoudre les problèmes écologiques ? Pourquoi l’euro n’est-il pas une invention libérale ? Pourquoi la mondialisation est-elle préférable à l’intégration régionale ? Pourquoi la politique de stabilisation est-elle une source d’instabilité économique ? Une réévaluation en profondeur de la pensée libérale ; une contribution iconoclaste aux débats sur les principes et la philosophie qui doivent nous guider. Et si le libéralisme, fort des trois principes que sont la liberté, la propriété, la responsabilité, était le véritable humanisme, la seule vraie utopie réaliste qui autorise la plus belle des espérances pour notre temps : la confiance optimiste dans l’individu ?

Listing 1 - 10 of 22 << page
of 3
>>
Sort by