The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism / / Mark Evans.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Evans, Mark,
• MitwirkendeR: Baumeister, Andrea,; Baxter, Brian,; Bellamy, Richard,; Bideleux, Robert,; Canovan, Margaret,; Evans, Mark,; Freeden, Michael,; Haddock, Bruce,; Kymlicka, Will,; Lassman, Peter,; Martin, Rex,; Peffer, Rodney G,; Rasmussen, David,; Sakwa, Richard,; Seglow, Jonathan,; Soper, Kate,; Sutch, Peter,; Tietjens Meyers, Diana,; Vincent, Andrew,; Williams, Howard,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

A major new reference volume - The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism is the premier collection of material on a comprehensive range of topics in contemporary liberalism.Liberal theory has been caricatured by its critics as an abstract, unworldly, trivial philosophical navel-gazing pursuit. The Companion counters this view by showing how liberalism can tackle wide-ranging practical concerns that urgently demand attention in twenty-first century politics. Rather than presenting contemporary liberalism simply and narrowly as a survey of what its main academic protagonists have said over the past 30 years, the guiding principle of the volume is to conceptualise it primarily as a set of themes and approaches informed by the challenges to the practice of liberal politics.Issues such as human rights, citizenship, nationalism, feminism, international communities, supranational orders, post-communism and ecocentrism take their place alongside the more familiar and well-worked themes of justice and justification as topics for liberal theorising. The reader is vividly shown the ways in which liberalism engages directly with the problems of practical political life today.This wide-ranging account of contemporary liberal thinking places the emphasis on agenda-setting, showing that contemporary liberalism is live - relevant, proactive, continuously engaged and adaptable - and that the problems faced by the liberal order are sufficiently complex and perplexing to demand the serious, rigorous philosophical reflection offered by contemporary liberal political theory.The Companion allows the reader to explore liberalism's contemporary relevance and to look to its likely future developments. With contributors including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden, Richard Bellamy, Rex Martin, Margaret Canovan, Diana T. Meyers, and Kate Soper, this large, definitive edition will be a must-buy for all libraries and a key reference tool for all those with an interest in contemporary liberalism.Key FeaturesMajor reference work - the only comprehensive reference work on contemporary liberalismShows how liberalism is relevant to practical issues such as human rights, citizenship, international communities and post-communismLooks to the future development of liberalismContributions from the leading figures in the field of liberalism including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden and Rex Martin

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Part One: The Liberal Trajectory -- 1. Issues and Trends in Contemporary Liberalism -- 2. Twentieth-Century Liberal Thought: Development or Transformation? -- Part Two: Citizenship: Universalism and Particularism -- 3. Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice -- 4. Liberalism and Citizenship -- 5. The Sword of Faith and the Shield of Fear: Liberalism and the Power of the Nation -- 6. Liberal Citizenship and Feminism -- Part Three: Justice: Identity and Distribution -- 7. Liberalism and the Politics of Recognition -- 8. The Essential Indeterminacy of Rawls’s Difference Principle -- 9. Rawlsian Theory, Contemporary Marxism and the Difference Principle -- Part Four: Problems of Liberal Justification -- 10. Disenchantment and the Liberalism of Fear -- 11. Pragmatist Liberalism and the Evasion of Politics -- 12. Liberalism and Contingency -- Part Five: Liberalism versus Republicanism? -- 13. Back to the Future: Pluralism and the Republican Alternative to Liberalism -- 14. Accommodating Republicanism -- Part Six: The ‘Autonomous Individual’: Feminist Critiques and Liberal Replies -- 15. Liberalism, Feminism, Enlightenment -- 16. Feminism and Women’s Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting -- Part Seven: Liberalism Beyond the Nation-State -- 17. Civil Association: The European Union as a Supranational Liberal Legal Order -- 18. The Idea of a Liberal-Democratic Peace -- 19. Constructing International Community: Liberal Theory, Developmental Communitarianism and International Ethics -- Part Eight: New Directions for Liberal Thinking -- 20. Liberalism and Post-communism -- 21. Liberalism, Ecocentrism and Persons -- 22. Prolegomenon to a Liberal Theory of the Good Life -- Bibliography -- Index