Format:
1 online resource (236 pages)
ISBN:
9780511150159
Content:
This powerful and interesting study challenges the traditional 'individualist' definition of liberal political ideas.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Clarifying 'individualism' -- The evolution of 'liberal individualism' -- Liberal individualism today -- 'Immanent critique' and contemporary political theory -- Looking ahead -- 1 Individualism as a political ideal -- Liberty and individual inviolability -- Liberty and the private sphere -- An inviolable private sphere -- 2 Individualism as a theory -- (1) The priority of the individual consists in the fact that individualists only deploy justifications that refer to the… -- (2) The priority of the individual consists in the fact that individualists recognize no collective aspirations or goals… -- (3) The priority of the individual consists in the fact that individualists deny that the state is a self-conscious agent… -- (4) The priority of the individual consists in the dependence of political individualism on 'methodological individualism' -- (5) The priority of the individual consists in the fact that individualists deny that collectivities have any ontological… -- (6) The priority of the individual consists in the fact that individualists only recognize those social goods that are… -- 3 Public agency and conceptions of collectivity -- Conceptions of collectivity -- Aggregative conceptions of collectivity -- Associative conceptions of collectivity -- Symmetry -- The significance of these conceptions -- 4 Individualist distributions of liberty -- From Rousseau to Kant -- Clarifying negative liberty -- Mill's defence of liberty -- Conclusions -- 5 Self-ownership and individual inviolability -- The thesis of individual inviolability -- The thesis of self-ownership -- Inviolable self-ownership rights? -- Two strategies of justification -- An economy of rights -- The enforcement objection -- 6 The myth of liberal individualism.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521641289
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521641289
Additional Edition:
Print version Myth of liberal individualism
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=142404
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