A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents
Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought. Assaults on liberalism--a political order characterized by limits on political power and respect for individual rights--are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin--each of whom is given a compelling new assessment here. Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition--one marked by openness to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos.
Описание: While liberal-democratic states like America, Britain and Australia claim to value freedom of expression and the right to dissent, they have always actually criminalized dissent. The book highlights the mix of fear and delusion in play when states privilege security to protect an imagined `political order` from difference and disagreement.
Автор: Deveaux, Monique Название: Gender and Justice in Multicultural Liberal States ISBN: 0199559244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199559244 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5622.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a persuasive new argument for reconciling the tensions that arise when liberal democratic states try to protect two important kinds of equality: sexual equality and cultural equality.
Автор: Kukathas, Chandran. Название: The liberal archipelago : ISBN: 019925754X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199257546 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17028.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In his major new work Chandran Kukathas offers, for the first time, a book-length treatment of this controversial and influential theory of minority rights. The author argues that the free society should not be seen as a hierarchy of superior and subordinate authorities but an archipelago of competing and overlapping jurisdictions.The idea of a liberal archipelago is defended as one which supplies us with a better metaphor of the free society than do older notionssuch as the body politic, or the ship of state. In challenging most of the existing theories of the multicultural society and answering his past critics, Kukathas has produced the book that no one with an interest in multiculturalism can afford to ignore.
Описание: How should a free society protect privacy? Dramatic changes in national security law and surveillance, as well as technological changes from social media to smart cities mean that our ideas about privacy and its protection are being challenged like never before. In this interdisciplinary book, Chris Berg explores what classical liberal approaches to privacy can bring to current debates about surveillance, encryption and new financial technologies. Ultimately, he argues that the principles of classical liberalism – the rule of law, individual rights, property and entrepreneurial evolution – can help extend as well as critique contemporary philosophical theories of privacy.
Автор: Gascoigne Neil Название: Rorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty ISBN: 3030254569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030254568 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 6986.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through an examination of this analogy, and in light of Wittgenstein`s On Certainty, this book argues that understood correctly the `parity` argument in fact lends epistemological support to the argument that religious considerations should not be raised in public debate.
Описание: First, to provide a critical legal examination of the liberal state and liberal rights in the law, and secondly, to present a systematic alternative to liberal approaches to both the law and rights, grounded in a left wing conception of human dignity.
Автор: Gaffney Jennifer Название: Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding ISBN: 1786606941 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786606945 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 22810.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding examines the loneliness that remains at work in modern life even as we find ourselves increasingly interconnected. While much has been said about this experience in the main currents of continental philosophy, this book opens new paths within this discourse by developing the problem of loneliness in a political register. The central claim of this book is that neoliberal subjectivity has rendered us lonely. Drawing especially on the work of Hannah Arendt, the author suggests that the political structures we have inherited from the liberal tradition--such as the anonymity of the vote and the right to pursue one's private self-interest as far as possible--have left us hidden from one another, unable to appear as members of a common world. The author further argues that it is precisely this experience of political loneliness that renders citizens in liberal and allegedly open societies desperate to belonging and willing, in turn, to surrender to delusional fellowships like totalitarianism. By developing the problem of loneliness in a political register, this book offers a framework for interpreting the rise of totalitarianism at the beginning of the twentieth century, no less than the recent ascendance of right-wing populism in Western liberal democracies today. It thus makes an important contribution to debates in current continental philosophy, liberal political theory, and critical theory regarding issues of alienation, political life, and community in the present age.
Автор: Giavazzi Francesco, Lefebvre d`Ovidio Francesco, Mingardi Alberto Название: The Liberal Heart of Europe: Essays in Memory of Alberto Giovannini ISBN: 3030603679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030603670 Издательство: Springer Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 1 Introduction 2 Some Introductory Thoughts Part I The European "Postwar Consensus" and the European Project 3 The Origins of the Idea of European Integration: A German Perspective 4 The European "Postwar Consensus" and the Birth of the EEC 5 "Large Switzerland" or "Large France"? The Ordoliberals and Early European Integration 6 Hayek's Europe: The Austrian School and European Federalism 7 The Monnet Method and the Obsolescence of the EU Part II The Evolution of the European Project in the 1980s: How Liberalisation Affected Europe 8 The Re-launching of European Integration in the 1980s, Ideas and Policies 9 Evaluating Mrs. Thatcher's Reforms: Britain's 1980s Economic Reform Program 10 The Rocky Road to European Monetary Union: A German Perspective Part III Our Current Predicament 11 The Euro in Perspective 12 Dealing with the Covid Debt Overhang 13 Globalization and Its Critics 14 The Great Recession and the Future of the EU
Автор: Hak, Gordon H. Название: Liberal Progressivism : ISBN: 0367616696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367616694 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elections, politicians, scandals, fund-raising, and law-making.
Описание: In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number of economic and social problems it confronts is such that a great deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a class of civil servants. Yet many political philosophers have not taken this model up, and the field has ignored the important role played by the class of "permanent" state officials--the "deep state" as some call it--in liberal states. In most liberal democracies for example, the central bank is as independent as the supreme court, yet deals with a wide range of economic, social, and political issues. How do these public servants make these policy decisions? What normative principles inform their judgments? In The Machinery of Government, Joseph Heath attempts to answer these questions. He looks to the actual practice of public administration to see how normative questions are addressed. More broadly, he attempts to provide the outlines of a "philosophy of the executive" by taking seriously the claim to political authority of the most neglected of the three branches of the state. Heath both provides a corrective to the prevailing tendency to underestimate the contribution of civil servants to the success of liberal-democratic welfare states, and suggests a more satisfactory account of the principles implicit in public administration.
Автор: M. Seliger Название: The Liberal Politics of John Locke ISBN: 0367331063 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367331061 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 19906.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1968. This book presents the synthesis of a coherent view of the Lockeian argument from his various works. This tests the inner consistency of Locke`s political theory against his own examples from history.
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