Format:
Online-Ressource (264 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780826477415
Series Statement:
Continuum Collection
Content:
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 inadequa
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Transformation of Liberalism; 1 Hegel and Liberalism; 2 J. S. Mill, T. H. Green and Isaiah Berlin on the Nature of Liberty and Liberalism; 3 An Italian 'New Liberal' Theorist - Guido De Ruggiero's History of European Liberalism and the Crisis of Idealist Liberalism; 4 Carl Schmitt and the Contradictions of Liberal Democracy; 5 Schumpeter and the Transformation of Capitalism, Liberalism and Democracy; Part II: Rights, Pluralism and the Need for Politics; 6 Liberal Justice: Political and Metaphysical; 7 Moralizing Markets
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8 Liberal Rights, Socialist Goals and the Duties of Citizenship9 Three Models of Rights and Citizenship; 10 Liberalism and the Challenge of Pluralism; Part III: Reinventing Liberal Politics; 11 The Anti-Poll Tax Non-Payment Campaign and Liberal Concepts of Political Obligation; 12 Building the Union: The Nature of Sovereignty in the Political Architecture of Europe; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826425171
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826477415
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rethinking Liberalism
Language:
English
Keywords:
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