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Author : John Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136175800

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Post-Liberalism by John Gray Pdf

John Gray has become one of our liveliest and most influential political philosophers. This current volume is a sequel to his Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy. The earlier book ended on a sceptical note, both in respect of what a post-liberal political philosophy might look like, and with respect to the claims of political philosophy itself. John Gray's new book gives post-liberal theory a more definite content. It does so by considering particular thinkers in the history of political thought, by criticizing the conventional wisdom, liberal and socialist, of the Western academic class, and most directly by specifying what remains of value in liberalism. The upshot of this line of thought is that we need not regret the failure of foundationalist liberalism, since we have all we need in the historic inheritance of the institutions of civil society. It is to the practice of liberty that these institutions encompass, rather than to empty liberal theory, that we should repair.

Author : John Milbank,Adrian Pabst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783486502

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The Politics of Virtue by John Milbank,Adrian Pabst Pdf

Two expert authors combine a compelling critique of contemporary liberalism with post-liberal alternatives in politics, the economy, culture and international affairs, to provide the fullest account so far of the post-liberal alternative in Western politics.

Author : Immanuel Wallerstein
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459603134

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After Liberalism by Immanuel Wallerstein Pdf

In After Liberalism, the distinguished historian and political scientist Immanuel Wallerstein examines the process of disintegration of our modern world-system and speculates on the changes that may occur during the next few decades. He explores the historical choices before us and suggests paths for reconstructing our world-system on a more rational and socially equitable basis.

Author : Melvyn L. Fein
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412846349

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Post-Liberalism by Melvyn L. Fein Pdf

Liberalism is dying—despite its superficial appearance of vigor. Most of its adherents still believe it is the wave of the future, but they are clinging to a sinking dream. So says Melvyn L. Fein, who argues that liberalism has made countless promises, almost none of which have come true. Under its auspices, poverty was not eliminated, crime did not diminish, the family was not strengthened, education was not improved, nor was universal peace established. These failures were not accidental; they flow directly from liberal contradictions. In Post-Liberalism, Fein demonstrates why this is the case. Fein contends that an "inverse force rule" dictates that small communities are united by strong forces, such as personal relationships and face-to-face hierarchies, while large-scale societies are integrated by weak forces, such as technology and social roles. As we become a more complex techno-commercial society, the weak forces become more dominant. This necessitates greater decentralization, in direct opposition to the centralization that liberals celebrate. Paradoxically, this suggests that liberalism, as an ideology, is regressive rather than progressive. If so, it must fail. Liberals assume that some day, under their tutelage, these trends will be reversed, but this contradicts human nature and history’s lessons. According to Fein, we as a species are incapable of eliminating hierarchy or of loving all other humans with equal intensity. Neither, as per Emile Durkheim, are we able to live in harmony without appropriate forms of social cohesion.

Author : Faisal Devji,Zaheer Kazmi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190851279

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Islam After Liberalism by Faisal Devji,Zaheer Kazmi Pdf

Arabic thought in the liberal cage / Hussein Omar -- Corrupting politics / Nadia Bou Ali -- Illiberal Islam / Faisal Devji -- Postcolonial prophets: Islam in the liberal academy / Neguin Yavari -- A new deal between mankind and its gods / Abdennour Bidar -- The dissonant politics of religion, circulation, and civility in the sociology of Islam / Armando Salvatore -- Islamic democracy by numbers / Zaheer Kazmir -- Bourgeois Islam and Muslims without Mosques / Carool Kersten -- Islamic secularism and the question of freedom / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam -- Militancy, monarchy and the struggle to desacralise kingship in Arabia / Ahmed Dailami -- Islamotopia: revival, reform, and American exceptionalism / Michael Muhammad Knight -- Preliminary thoughts on art and society / Sadia Abbas -- The political meanings of Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam / Edward E. Curtis IV -- Post-Islamism as neoliberalism / Peter Mandaville

Author : Adrian Pabst
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509546824

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Postliberal Politics by Adrian Pabst Pdf

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues that now is the time for an alternative – postliberalism – that is centred around trust, dignity, and human relationships. Instead of reverting to the destabilising inhumanity of 'just-in-time' free-market globalisation, we could build a politics upon the sense of localism and community spirit, the valuing of family, place and belonging, which was a real theme of lockdown. We are not obliged to put up with the restoration of a broken status quo that erodes trust, undermines institutions and trashes our precious natural environment. We could build a pluralist democracy, decentralise the state, and promote embedded, mutualist markets. This bold book shows that only a politics which fuses economic justice with social solidarity and ecological balance can overcome our deep divisions and save us from authoritarian backlash.​

Author : Paul Edward Gottfried
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400822898

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After Liberalism by Paul Edward Gottfried Pdf

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 : Hossein Sadri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319762678

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Neo-liberalism and the Architecture of the Post Professional Era by Hossein Sadri Pdf

This book discusses the effects of Neo-Liberal policies on the transformations of architectural and urban practices and education in the transition from the era of “professionalism” to “post-professionalism.” Building on previous literature in the field of contemporary theory of architecture, it provides the necessary resources for the study of contemporary architecture and urban politics, urban sociology, local administration and urban geography. Further, it develops a political and critical perspective on contemporary practices of architecture and urbanism, their implementation, legal background, political effects and social results. The book will interest readers from a wide range of academic disciplines, from political science to architecture, and from urban studies to sociology.

Author : Matthew Rose
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300243116

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A World After Liberalism by Matthew Rose Pdf

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 : Joel Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108836500

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Post-Liberal Religious Liberty by Joel Harrison Pdf

A radically theological-political account of religious liberty, challenging secularisation narratives and liberal egalitarian arguments.

Author : R. Friedman,K. Oskanian,R. Pachedo Pardo,Ramon Pacheco Pardo
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349454303

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After Liberalism? by R. Friedman,K. Oskanian,R. Pachedo Pardo,Ramon Pacheco Pardo Pdf

In this collection, leading international scholars provide their perspectives on the continuing role of the liberal paradigm, both as a theoretical approach to international relations, and as an ordering principle of international politics.

Author : Cheng Chen
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271047614

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The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist States by Cheng Chen Pdf

Author : Oliver Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136680823

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A Post-Liberal Peace by Oliver Richmond Pdf

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements. Liberal peacebuilding has caused a range of unintended consequences. These emerge from the liberal peace’s internal contradictions, from its claim to offer a universal normative and epistemological basis for peace, and to offer a technology and process which can be applied to achieve it. When viewed from a range of contextual and local perspectives, these top-down and distant processes often appear to represent power rather than humanitarianism or emancipation. Yet, the liberal peace also offers a civil peace and emancipation. These tensions enable a range of hitherto little understood local and contextual peacebuilding agencies to emerge, which renegotiate both the local context and the liberal peace framework, leading to a local-liberal hybrid form of peace. This might be called a post-liberal peace. Such processes are examined in this book in a range of different cases of peacebuilding and statebuilding since the end of the Cold War. This book will be of interest to students of peacebuilding, peacekeeping, peace and conflict studies, international organisations and IR/Security Studies.

Author : John Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136175879

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Post-Liberalism by John Gray Pdf

John Gray has become one of our liveliest and most influential political philosophers. This current volume is a sequel to his Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy. The earlier book ended on a sceptical note, both in respect of what a post-liberal political philosophy might look like, and with respect to the claims of political philosophy itself. John Gray's new book gives post-liberal theory a more definite content. It does so by considering particular thinkers in the history of political thought, by criticizing the conventional wisdom, liberal and socialist, of the Western academic class, and most directly by specifying what remains of value in liberalism. The upshot of this line of thought is that we need not regret the failure of foundationalist liberalism, since we have all we need in the historic inheritance of the institutions of civil society. It is to the practice of liberty that these institutions encompass, rather than to empty liberal theory, that we should repair.

Author : Oliver P. Richmond,Audra Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230354234

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Hybrid Forms of Peace by Oliver P. Richmond,Audra Mitchell Pdf

This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors. Building on critiques of liberal peace-building, it redefines critical peace and conflict studies, based on new research from 16 countries.