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Justice and foreign policy
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ISBN: 0191611522 1299910831 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This book is an argument about the moral foundations of foreign policy. It argues that a liberal state can insist upon the universal reach of liberal ideas, while still distinguishing between what is owed to citizens and what is owed to foreign citizens. This liberalism includes a concern for liberal toleration, which is intended to defend the proposition that a liberal state can work for democratization and liberalism abroad, without being intolerant or illiberal in doing so. What constraints there are on foreign policy emerge not from the need to tolerate undemocratic regimes, but from the p


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Jahrbuch zur Liberalismus-Forschung : 26. Jahrgang 2014
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ISBN: 3845256516 3848716100 Year: 2014 Publisher: Baden-Baden, Germany : Nomos,

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The classical liberal constitution
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ISBN: 0674727800 0674726499 9780674726499 9780674724891 0674724895 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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American liberals and conservatives alike take for granted a progressive view of the Constitution that took root in the early twentieth century. Richard Epstein laments this complacency which, he believes, explains America's current economic malaise and political gridlock. Steering clear of well-worn debates between defenders of originalism and proponents of a living Constitution, Epstein employs close textual reading, historical analysis, and political and economic theory to urge a return to the classical liberal theory of governance that animated the framers' original constitutional design. Grounded in the thought of Locke, Hume, Madison, and other Enlightenment figures, classical liberalism emphasized federalism, restricted government, separation of powers, and strong protection of individual rights. New Deal progressives challenged this synthesis by embracing government as a force for social good rather than a necessary evil. The Supreme Court has unwisely ratified the progressive program by sustaining many legislative initiatives at odds with the classical liberal Constitution. Epstein addresses both the Constitution's structural safeguards against state power and its protection of individual rights. He sheds light on contemporary disputes ranging from presidential prerogatives to health care legislation, while exploring such enduring topics as judicial review, economic regulation, freedom of speech and religion, and equal protection.


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Re-inventing Western civilisation : transnational reconstructions of liberalism in Europe in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 1443866180 9781443866187 1443860492 9781443860499 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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The volume shows that neoliberalism concerns a tradition carried by a network of people, who understood themselves as liberals (and at times as neoliberals) and who sought to create societies based on individual freedom and a free market economy. It also shows that neoliberalism emerged as a transnational and multilingual phenomenon and that it cannot be reduced to one doctrine or practice. The book will enrich the reader's knowledge of the political-ideological landscapes and developments in...


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Demokracie v postliberální konstelaci
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ISBN: 8024628864 9788024628868 9788024628783 Year: 2014 Publisher: [Prague, Czech Republic] : Karolinum,

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Zdá se, že v soucasné dobe prožíváme krizi liberální demokracie. Symptomy jsou neprehlédnutelné: pokles volební úcasti, nebývalá schopnost oligarchií využívat fungování státu ve svuj prospech, vlády tvrdošíjne prosazující neoliberální reformy i pres vytrvalý odpor obcanu, odumírání sociálního státu a v neposlední rade úspech nového populismu pravice. V této knize se hledá protilék. Príciny krize autori nespatrují ve výzvách globálního kapitalismu, natož v pohnuté ceské historii. Zajímá je vnitrní napetí v liberální demokracii samotné, které spatrují v nedostatecné artikulaci vztahu mezi liberalismem a demokracií. Soudí, že dosavadní artikulace se vycerpaly, a tak se hledají nové. Postliberální konstelaci považují práve za takový teoretický prostor, ve kterém lze nove tematizovat schopnosti demokracie jednat kolektivne, verejne a politicky, schopnosti, které liberální teorie ve svých úvahách eliminují. Otázky s tím spojené se v knize zkoumají z hlediska ctyr smeru soudobé demokratické teorie: neorepublikanismu, deliberativní demokracie, postliberální demokracie a demokracie radikální. Odpovedi se pochopitelne liší, spolecná jim je ale snaha otevrít pro demokratické myšlení postliberální perspektivu.


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Varieties of liberalism
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ISBN: 1443861502 9781443861502 130687579X 9781306875790 1443858129 9781443858120 Year: 2014 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]

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The contemporary world is complex and is characterized by new normative challenges with regards to living conditions and political organization, both within the borders of sovereign states and globally. Such challenges require interdisciplinary analyses of a number of intertwined subjects. Varieties of Liberalism: Contemporary Challenges presents an important contribution to this pressing task. Relying on the cooperation of UiT The Arctic University of Norway research group Pluralism, Democra...


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Die Grenzen staatlicher Legitimität : eine philosophische Untersuchung zum Verhältnis von Liberalismus und Perfektionismus
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ISBN: 9783897852273 9783897858954 3897858959 3897852276 Year: 2014 Publisher: Münster : Mentis,

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Ist es legitim, wenn der Staat eine Auffassung zum guten Leben vertritt und seinen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern nahebringt? Oder muss sich ein legitimer Staat aus allen Fragen des Guten heraushalten? Oder darf sich ein Staat Auffassungen zum guten Leben zu eigen machen und legitimerweise befördern, wenn diese vor allen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern gerechtfertigt sind? Um diese Probleme dreht sich der Streit zwischen Perfektionismus, politischem Liberalismus und perfektionistischem Liberalismus. In vorliegendem Buch wird dieser Streit dargestellt und Stellung für den perfektionistischen Liberalismus bezogen. Dazu werden die Unterschiede zwischen den genannten Positionen herausgearbeitet ausgehend davon, wie diese die Minimalanforderung an staatliche Legitimität interpretieren. Insbesondere wird diskutiert, wie sich Perfektionismus sowie politischer und perfektionistischer Liberalismus zu den Fragen der Rechtfertigung normativer und evaluativer Urteile, des gerechtfertigten Pluralismus und der Grenzen gerechtfertigten Dissenses positionieren. Aus den Antworten, die sie auf diese Fragen geben, lässt sich schließlich auch ein neues Verständnis von Toleranz und staatlicher Neutralität im Liberalismus ableiten.


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The Transformation of Liberalism in Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico
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ISBN: 1400863228 0691078149 1306985293 0691633398 9781400863228 9780691604220 9780691078144 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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A leading intellectual historian of Latin America here examines the changing political ideas of the Mexican intellectual and quasi-governmental elite during the period of ideological consensus from the victory of Benito Juárez of 1867 into the 1890s. Looking at Mexican political thought in a comparative Western context, Charles Hale fully describes how triumphant liberalism was transformed by its encounter with the philosophy of positivism. In so doing, he challenges the prevailing tendency to divide Mexican thought into liberal and positivist stages. The political impact of positivism in Mexico began in 1878, when the "new" or "conservative" liberals enunciated the doctrine of "scientific politics" in the newspaper La Libertad. Hale probes the intellectual origins of scientific politics in the ideas of Henri de Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte, and he discusses the contemporary models of the movement the conservative republics of France and Spain. Drawing on the debates between advocates of scientific politics and defenders of the Constitution of 1857 in its pure form, he argues that the La Libertad group of 1878 and their heirs, the Cientificos of 1893, were constitutionalists in the liberal tradition and not merely apologists for the authoritarian regime of Porfirio Díaz. Hale concludes by outlining the legacy of scientific politics for post-revolutionary Mexico, particularly in the present-day efforts to inject "democracy" into the political system.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Law and the liberal state
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ISBN: 1784412384 1784412392 132229481X 9781784412388 9781784412395 Year: 2014 Publisher: United Kingdom

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This special issue of Studies in law, politics and society focuses on law and the liberal state; presenting an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to analysis of law and liberty. The first chapters focus on laws direct relationship with the American liberal state. John P. Anderson defends John Rawl's pragmatism; Adelaide Villmoare and Peter Stillman consider the 'Janus faces of laws', a double vision of law where both sides of the face adhere to one another through neoliberalism; and Timothy Delaune examines jury nullification. The remaining chapters then go on to consider specific applications of the law within society. Susan Burgess provides a critical account of what implications the inclusion of gays in the US military has for understanding the means by which the liberal state uses law to include the previously excluded. Daniel Skinner then problematizes the body politics of American liberalism, as viewed through the lens of health policy and the final chapter from Beau Breslin and Katherine Cavanaugh explores how various legal and judicial policies have highlighted the clash between the states' imperial authority and Native American narratives.


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Intimacy and Exclusion
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ISBN: 0691630895 1400864348 9781400864348 9780691630892 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity--a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism first became an influential political movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish and women's studies into German history, Dagmar Herzog demonstrates how centrally Christianity's problematic relationships to Judaism and to sexuality shaped liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the pre-revolutionary years. In particular, she reveals how often conflicts over the "politics of the personal," especially over sex and marriage, determined "larger" political matters, among them the relationship between church and state and the terms on which Jews were granted civic rights.Herzog documents the rise of a politically sophisticated conservative Catholicism, and explores liberals' ensuing eagerness to advance a humanist version of Christianity. Yet she also examines the limitations at the heart of the liberal project, especially liberals' unwillingness to grant equality to those deemed "different" from the Christian male norm. Finally, the author analyzes the difficulties encountered by philosemitic and feminist radicals in reconceptualizing both classical liberalism and Christianity in order to make room for the claims of Jews and women.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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