The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism /

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism / / Mark Evans.

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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 pursu...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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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

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