From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition : : Essays in Honor of Janos Kis / / ed. by Ronald Dworkin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• MitwirkendeR: Arato, Andrew,; Dworkin, Ronald,; Garton Ash, Timothy,; Greskovits, Béla,; Holmes, Stephen,; Kamm, Frances M.,; Kymlicka, Will,; Ludassy, Mária,; Lukes, Steven,; Markus, Gyorgy,; Sajó, András,; Smolar, Aleksander,; Tamás, G. M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Dworkin, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)

The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Mária Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, András Sajó, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton Ash, Béla Greskovits, Will Kymlicka, and Aleksander Smolar. The studies explore a wide scope of subjects that belong to disciplines ranging from moral philosophy, through theory of human rights, democratic transition, constitutionalism, to political economy. The common denominator of the studies collected is their reference to the scholarly output of János Kis, in honor of his sixtieth birthday. János Kis is a distinguished political philosopher who, after many years spent as a dissident under the Communist regime, emerged as an important political figure in Hungary's transition to democracy. Currently he is University Professor of Philosophy at Central European University, Budapest.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Liberal Values -- 1. Judicial Independence as Ambiguous Reality and Insidious Illusion -- 2. Why a Rational Agent Need Not Intend the Means to His End -- 3. Language and Order: De Bonald’s Theory of Language as a Paradigm of Traditionalist Political Philosophy -- 4. Invasions of the Market -- 5. The Hope to Be Free: Freedom as Fact, Postulate and Regulative Idea in Kant -- 6. Concepts of Neutrality and the State -- 7. On Depth and Greatness -- II. Democratic Transition -- 8. The Occupation of Iraq and the Difficult Transition from Dictatorship -- 9. “1989” – For János Kis -- 10. Beyond Transition: The Variety of Post-Socialist Development -- 11. Nationalism, Transnationalism and Postnationalism -- 12. In Search for Hope and Paradigm -- Selected Bibliography of János Kis -- List of Contributors -- Index