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Author : Hannah Dawson,Annelien de Dijn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108844567
Reflects on histories of freedom and republicanism through a major new reappraisal of Quentin Skinner's Liberty before Liberalism.
Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107689534
Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.
Author : Patrick J. Deneen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300240023
"One of the most important political books of 2018."—Rod Dreher, American Conservative Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.
Author : Lawrence Quill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Common good
ISBN : 1349521418
If the age old question of political theory was 'how do the few control the many', the postmodern version is surely 'how do the many control the few'? In other words, how do global citizens control the actions of elected representatives and unelected officials? In answer to that question, Lawrence Quill proposes a new interpretation of civic-republicanism by recasting the theory of active citizenship within the context of the global polity. Consequently, cosmorepublican citizens he suggests, should be thought of as autonomous, skeptical, critical of government and active participants in a global politics of resistance. Liberty after Liberalism blends the insights of republican thinkers such as Jefferson and Arendt with a postmodern sensitivity towards the development of new political geographies. Cosmorepublican citizens are neither situated nor unencumbered selves but ironic selves, bridge builders and networkers who participate virtually and actually in order to effect change locally and globally.
Author : L. Quill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230598911
Liberty After Liberalism frees the concept of the active citizen from both the territorial confines of the nation-state and the limits imposed by republican, city-state models. Lawrence Quill advances a theory of global republicanism, one that is able to respond directly to the changing realities of political life. By adopting a publicly ironic approach to politics, Quill revives the idea of public freedom within a global context thereby providing an important supplement to contemporary theories of cosmopolitan democracy.
Author : Matthew Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300243116
A bracing account of liberalism's most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century "One of the best discussions of the extreme right's intellectual foundations that I have ever read."--George Hawley, author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right "One of the best books I've read this year. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated."--Rod Dreher, American Conservative In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the "radical right," and discusses its adherents' different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism. Questioning democracy's most basic norms and practices, these critics rejected ideas about human equality, minority rights, religious toleration, and cultural pluralism not out of implicit biases, but out of explicit principle. They disagree profoundly on race, religion, economics, and political strategy, but they all agree that a postliberal political life will soon be possible. Focusing on the work of Oswald Spengler, Julius Evola, Francis Parker Yockey, Alain de Benoist, and Samuel Francis, Rose shows how such thinkers are animated by religious aspirations and anxieties that are ultimately in tension with Christian teachings and the secular values those teachings birthed in modernity.
Author : Annelien De Dijn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674988330
The invention of modern freedom—the equating of liberty with restraints on state power—was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the Atlantic Revolutions. We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But who came up with this understanding of freedom, and for what purposes? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of thinking about freedom in the West, Annelien de Dijn argues that we owe our view of freedom not to the liberty lovers of the Age of Revolution but to the enemies of democracy. The conception of freedom most prevalent today—that it depends on the limitation of state power—is a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking about liberty. For centuries people in the West identified freedom not with being left alone by the state but with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. They had what might best be described as a democratic conception of liberty. Understanding the long history of freedom underscores how recently it has come to be identified with limited government. It also reveals something crucial about the genealogy of current ways of thinking about freedom. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who created our modern democracies—it was invented by their critics and opponents. Rather than following in the path of the American founders, today’s “big government” antagonists more closely resemble the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
Author : Faisal Devji,Zaheer Kazmi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190911560
Forged in the age of empire, the relationship between Islam and liberalism has taken on a sense of urgency today, when global conflicts are seen as pitting one against the other. More than describing a civilizational fault-line between the Muslim world and the West, however, this relationship also offers the potential for consensus and the possibility of moral and political engagement or compatibility. The existence or extent of this correspondence tends to preoccupy academic as much as popular accounts of such a relationship. This volume looks however to the way in which Muslim politics and society are defined beyond and indeed after it. Reappraising the 'first wave' of Islamic liberalism during the nineteenth century, the book describes the long and intertwined histories of these categories across a large geographical expanse. By drawing upon the contributions of scholars from a variety of disciplines -- including philosophy, theology, sociology, politics and history -- it explores how liberalism has been criticised and refashioned by Muslim thinkers and movements, to assume a reality beyond the abstractions that define its compatibility with Islam.
Author : Edmund Fawcett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691168395
A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to today Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the American and European past. This engrossing history of liberalism—the first in English for many decades—traces liberalism’s ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians, from the early nineteenth century to today. An enlightening account of a vulnerable but critically important political creed, Liberalism provides the vital historical and intellectual background for hard thinking about liberal democracy’s future.
Author : George H. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107354791
Liberal individualism, or 'classical liberalism' as it is often called, refers to a political philosophy in which liberty plays the central role. This book demonstrates a conceptual unity within the manifestations of classical liberalism by tracing the history of several interrelated and reinforcing themes. Concepts such as order, justice, rights and freedom have imparted unity to this diverse political ideology by integrating context and meaning. However, they have also sparked conflict, as classical liberals split on a number of issues, such as legitimate exceptions to the 'presumption of liberty', the meaning of 'the public good', natural rights versus utilitarianism, the role of the state in education, and the rights of resistance and revolution. This book explores these conflicts and their implications for contemporary liberal and libertarian thought.
Author : Paul Edward Gottfried
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400822898
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's "liberals" have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and "lifestyle" freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. Throughout the western world, increasingly uprooted populations unthinkingly accept centralized controls in exchange for a variety of entitlements. In their frightening passivity, Gottfried locates the quandary for traditionalist and populist adversaries of the welfare state. How can opponents of administrative elites show the public that those who provide, however ineptly, for their material needs are the enemies of democratic self-rule and of independent decision making in family life? If we do not wake up, Gottfried warns, the political debate may soon be over, despite sporadic and ideologically confused populist rumblings in both Europe and the United States.
Author : Edward Luce
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802188861
An “insightful and harrowing” analysis of the state of Western-style democracy by the Financial Times columnist and author of Time to Start Thinking (The New York Times). In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times columnist Edward Luce charted the course of America’s economic and geopolitical decline, proving to be a prescient voice on the state of the nation. In The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce makes a larger statement about the weakening of western hegemony and the crisis of democratic liberalism—of which Donald Trump and his European counterparts are not the cause, but a symptom. Luce argues that we are on a menacing trajectory brought about by ignorance of what it took to build the West, arrogance toward society’s economic losers, and complacency about our system’s durability—attitudes that have been emerging since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Unless the West can rekindle an economy that produces gains for the majority of its people, its political liberties may be doomed. Combining on-the-ground reporting with economic analysis, Luce offers a detailed projection of the consequences of the Trump administration and a forward-thinking analysis of what those who believe in enlightenment values must do to protect them.
Author : John Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798647707802
Originally written as a short philosophical essay, On Liberty was expanded into a book that later became one of John Stuart Mill's greatest works of all time. The author starts by emphasizing the tug of war between authority and liberty vis-à-vis political power in society then equates authority with domination and liberty with progress. He chooses against government rule, perceiving society as capable enough to run itself. Ideas and thoughts presented by Mill in his work were way ahead of his times and could be seen as a clear prediction that the future belonged to liberalism. It is inspiring to see how the author's century-old ideals still fit well into today's sense of society and provide us with a guide on how society should and should not be run His exceptions of applying government rule relate very well to the modern version of free society. Born in 1806 in Pentonville (London, England), John Stuart Mill was the most notable follower of classical liberalism. He opposed unlimited state control and championed liberty from state tyranny and liberty of speech. A representative of the Liberal Party, he was a supporter of self-governance of society and women's rights. Out of his many works, two have been the most influential, namely, Utilitarianism and On Liberty. Even a century after Mill's death in 1873, his works are still considered influential in the field of liberalism. Our 2020 version of the book contains an improved font formatting and for a better reading experience. Check the interior with Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare the book with other versions.
Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071
Author : G. John Ikenberry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300256093
A sweeping account of the rise and evolution of liberal internationalism in the modern era For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal challengers and from the inside by nationalist-populist movements. This timely book offers the first full account of liberal internationalism’s long journey from its nineteenth-century roots to today’s fractured political moment. Creating an international “space” for liberal democracy, preserving rights and protections within and between countries, and balancing conflicting values such as liberty and equality, openness and social solidarity, and sovereignty and interdependence—these are the guiding aims that have propelled liberal internationalism through the upheavals of the past two centuries. G. John Ikenberry argues that in a twenty-first century marked by rising economic and security interdependence, liberal internationalism—reformed and reimagined—remains the most viable project to protect liberal democracy.