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Reconsidering American Liberalism

Author : James Young
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429966326
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Reconsidering American Liberalism written by James Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty years ago Louis Hartz surveyed American political thought in his classic The Liberal Tradition in America. He concluded that American politics was based on a broad liberal consensus made possible by a unique American historical experience, a thesis that seemed to minimize the role of political conflict.Today, with conflict on the rise and with much of liberalism in disarray, James P. Young revisits these questions to reevaluate Hartz's interpretation of American politics. Young's treatment of key movements in our history, especially Puritanism and republicanism's early contribution to the Revolution and the Constitution, demonstrates in the spirit of Dewey and others that the liberal tradition is richer and more complex than Hartz and most contemporary theorists have allowed.The breadth of Young's account is unrivaled. Reconsidering American Liberalism gives voice not just to Locke, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Lincoln, and Dewey but also to Rawls, Shklar, Kateb, Wolin, and Walzer. In addition to broad discussions of all the major figures in over 300 years of political thought?with Lincoln looming particularly large?Young touches upon modern feminism and conservatism, multiculturalism, postmodernism, rights-based liberalism, and social democracy. Out of these contemporary materials Young synthesizes a new position, a smarter and tougher liberalism not just forged from historical materials but reshaped in the rough and tumble of contemporary thought and politics.This exceptionally timely study is both a powerful survey of the whole of U.S. political thought and a trenchant critique of contemporary political debates. At a time of acrimony and confusion in our national politics, Young enables us to see that salvaging a viable future depends upon our understanding how we have reached this point.Never without his own opinions, Young is scrupulously fair to the widest range of thinkers and marvelously clear in getting to the heart of their ideas. Although his book is a substantial contribution to political theory and the history of ideas, it is always accessible and lively enough for the informed general reader. It is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of U.S. political thought or, indeed, about the future of the country itself.

Liberalism

Author : L. T. Hobhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195365488
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism written by L. T. Hobhouse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1964-12-31 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still a timeless classic in the liberal tradition. Hobhouse conveys, very succinctly, the importance of a liberal ideology that does not turn its back on social responsibility. Although straightforward, the text is multi-textured with enough subtlety to draw students into a discussion of deeper. issues associated with liberal thought and practice.

The Liberal Hour

Author : G. Calvin Mackenzie
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594201707
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Hour written by G. Calvin Mackenzie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the liberal movement in the 1960s argues that the government was largely responsible for many of the positive changes associated with the period, in an account that evaluates the cultural and political factors that enabled key reforms.

The Once and Future Liberal

Author : Mark Lilla
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062697463
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Once and Future Liberal written by Mark Lilla and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most internationally admired political thinkers, a controversial polemic on the failures of identity politics and what comes next for the left — in America and beyond. Following the shocking results of the US election of 2016, public intellectuals across the globe offered theories and explanations, but few were met with such vitriol, panic, and debate as Mark Lilla’s. The Once and Future Liberal is a passionate plea to liberals to turn from the divisive politics of identity and develop a vision of the future that can persuade all citizens that they share a common destiny. Driven by a sincere desire to protect society’s most vulnerable, the left has unwittingly balkanized the electorate, encouraged self-absorption rather than solidarity, and invested its energies in social movements rather than party politics. Identity-focused individualism has insidiously conspired with amoral economic individualism to shape an electorate with little sense of a shared future and near-contempt for the idea of the common good. Now is the time to re-build a sense of common feeling and purpose, and a sense of duty to one another. A fiercely argued, important book, enlivened by acerbic wit and erudition, The Once and Future Liberal is essential reading for our times.

Liberal Purposes

Author : William A. Galston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521422505
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Liberal Purposes written by William A. Galston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-08-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman, who believe that the essence of liberalism is neutrality.

Liberalism and Community

Author : Steven Kautz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801484810
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and Community written by Steven Kautz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary political theory has experienced a recent revival of an old idea: that of community. In Liberalism and Community, Steven Kautz explores the consequences of this renewed interest for liberal politics. Whereas communitarian critics argue that liberalism is both morally and politically deficient because it does not adequately account for equality and virtue, Kautz defends liberalism by presenting reports of various partisan quarrels among liberals (who love liberty), democrats (who love equality), and republicans (who love virtue). Founded on the classic texts of Locke and Montesquieu, the liberalism that Kautz advocates is cautious and conservative. He defends it against the arguments of important new communitarians--Richard Rorty, Michael Walzer, Benjamin Barber, and Michael Sandel--and contrasts communitarian and liberal views on key questions. He discusses Walzer' s account of moral reasoning in a democratic community, engages Barber on the nature and limits of republican community, and takes on Rorty's communitarian account of moral psychology and the nature of the self. Kautz also explores the concepts of virtue, tolerance, and patriotism--issues of particular interest to communitarians which pose special problems for liberal political theory--in an effort to rebuild a new and more tenable interpretation of liberal rationality.

The Liberal's Guide to Conservatives

Author : J. Scott Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998157412
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Liberal's Guide to Conservatives written by J. Scott Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Liberalism

Author : Domenico Losurdo
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168166X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism written by Domenico Losurdo and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Europe’s leading intellectual historians deconstructs the dark side of liberalism, sifting through 3 centuries of liberal writings by John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others. In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery. Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieyès, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today’s politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.

The Liberal Approach to the Past

Author : Michael J. Douma
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 1948647834
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Approach to the Past written by Michael J. Douma and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by liberalism or liberal history? It seems that every scholar in the social sciences would like to define liberalism in their own way. Certainly there is plenty of room for differences of opinion on this matter. But defining any “-ism” requires circumscribing a set of beliefs or drawing lines in such a way as to connect ideas that we believe form a coherent tradition. Liberal history is primarily concerned with ideas and with the reasons why individuals acted as they did in the past. Liberal historians prefer to study themes of power and liberty, particularly as they relate to the rise and fall of political systems that protect liberties and individual rights. As the selections in this reader show, the liberal approach to the past is generally skeptical of laws of history and suggestions of historical determinism.

The Post-Liberal Imagination

Author : Bruce Baum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137560347
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Post-Liberal Imagination written by Bruce Baum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Post-Liberal Imagination , Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism 'in a critical spirit' by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics. The book analyzes movies, television, and popular music to rethink the liberal views of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights in the Bush-Obama era.

Understanding Liberal Democracy

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199558957
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Liberal Democracy written by Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Liberal Democracy collects Nicholas Wolterstorff's papers in political philosophy. The book includes some of Wolterstorff's earlier and influential work on the intersection between political philosophy and religion, and contains nine new essays in which Wolterstorff develops new lines of argument and stakes out novel positions regarding the nature of liberal democracy, human rights, and political authority. Taken together, these positionsare an attractive alternative to the so-called public reason liberalism defended by thinkers such as John Rawls. Of interest to philosophers, political theorists, and theologians, Understanding Liberal Democracyengages a wide audience of those interested in how best to understand the nature of liberal democracy and its relation to religion.

Liberal Loyalty

Author : Anna Stilz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691139148
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Liberal Loyalty written by Anna Stilz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Kant, Rousseau, and Habermas, Stilz argues that we owe civic obligations to the state if it is sufficiently just, and that constitutionally enshrined principles of justice in themselves are grounds for obedience to our particular state and for democratic solidarity with our fellow citizens.

American Liberalism

Author : John McGowan
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807885088
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book American Liberalism written by John McGowan and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism's critics. John McGowan argues that Americans should think twice before jettisoning the liberalism that guided American politics from James Madison to the New Deal and the Great Society. In an engaging and informative discussion, McGowan offers a ringing endorsement of American liberalism's basic principles, values, and commitments. He identifies five tenets of liberalism: a commitment to liberty and equality, trust in a constitutionally established rule of law, a conviction that modern societies are irreducibly plural, the promotion of a diverse civil society, and a reliance on public debate and deliberation to influence others' opinions and actions. McGowan explains how America's founders rejected the simplistic notion that government or society is necessarily oppressive. They were, however, acutely aware of the danger of tyranny. The liberalism of the founders distributed power widely in order to limit the power any one entity could exercise over others. Their aim was to provide for all an effective freedom that combined the right to self-determination with the ability to achieve one's self-chosen goals. In tracing this history, McGowan offers a clear vision of liberalism's foundational values as America's best guarantee today of liberty and the peace in which to exercise it.

Taking the Liberal Challenge Seriously

Author : Sirkku Hellsten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429789238
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Taking the Liberal Challenge Seriously written by Sirkku Hellsten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this collection offers a critical view of modern liberal theory and attempts to present some signposts that could show a way towards a new form of liberal individualism. The first part takes a look at the theoretical aspects of contemporary liberalism. It analyses certain classics whose ideas have once again become central to the new formulation of liberal theory. The second part brings the discussion from theory to practice and to actual policies adopted in liberal Western welfare states. Its main interest is in the economic doctrines which have formed an essential part of classical liberal thought. The third part moves yet another step further in its analysis of contemporary liberal challenges. It concentrates on the problems of the liberal requirement of freedom, neutrality and tolerance.

The Essential Lippmann

Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674267756
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Lippmann written by Walter Lippmann and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive selection of the political analyst's works which present his views on such topics as the dilemma of liberal democracy.

Essay on Liberalism

Author : D. Tucker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401110964
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Essay on Liberalism written by D. Tucker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to liberal political philosophy, adopting an analytical form of presentation. I consider arguments which inform contemporary debates; by articulating paradigmatic ways of thinking and reviewing competing conceptions of justice and democracy, I hope to present a characterisation of contemporary liberal thought which allows the reader to gauge its potentiality and relevance, and to comprehend in a systematic way some of the many disagreements between liberal writers and the strengths and weaknesses of the claims they make. The reader should also become familiar with the arguments of the most forceful critics of the tradition. The exercise is intended to introduce a way of theorising and my emphasis will be on philosophical analysis and reconstruction. I aim to delineate a variety of intellectual positions in a way that displays their logical coherence. I examine competing conceptions of 'democracy', 'free speech', 'equality' and 'individualism' that inform our political debates in contemporary liberal democracies. These philosophical differences determine many of the policies adopted by governments, for example, whether they forbid racist and pornographic speech, whether they regard abortion as a private matter, whether they oppose efforts to distribute wealth in the name of equity, and what they accept as constituting , due process of law'. By proceeding analytically in the way I propose, we should reach a greater understanding of the disagreements between liberal writers when they make judgments about policy issues of this kind; and we will be better placed to make evaluations.

How the Liberal Arts Can Save Liberal Democracy

Author : Steven M. DeLue
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498575374
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book How the Liberal Arts Can Save Liberal Democracy written by Steven M. DeLue and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently, liberal democracy is threatened by authoritarian movements, not just in the United States but also in societies around the world. The liberal arts helps to arrest these tendencies because of the support by citizens in liberal democracies for the values the latter shares with the liberal arts: autonomy and freedom. Autonomy is the capacity to make reasoned decisions about a host of political, social, and personal matters—independent of external parties who seek to control our lives for the sake of their ends and at the cost of our freedom. But autonomy depends on people being able to enter into discussions—what I call discourses of mutual respect—designed to test ideas in public against facts and good reasons. This discourse is facilitated by an enlarged culture through which individuals identify what they hold in common and by which individuals work to understand their differences. Now, authoritarian regimes reject autonomy because it empowers citizens to designate the boundaries and content of political authority. Liberal democracies, in contrast, embrace autonomy because it is the basis for the political institutions that provide civic equality—and through it—the freedom of citizens to control their destiny. Yet, ironically, an enlarged culture and the discourse of mutual respect that, together, sustain autonomy are not likely to be produced within a highly partisan political atmosphere of a liberal democracy. Still, a liberal democracy is open to the importation of these elements from the liberal arts. Thus, saving liberal democracy from authoritarianism depends on a robust liberal arts presence in society. What reforms of the liberal arts are needed to make this objective possible? Much rides on the answer to this question. For the fact is that if the liberal arts recedes to a whisper, liberal democracy is likely to be defeated by the authoritarian’s bluster-filled and always nihilist roar.