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Book Synopsis Rethinking Liberal Equality by : Andrew Levine
Download or read book Rethinking Liberal Equality written by Andrew Levine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By intervening sympathetically but critically into several ongoing debates initiated by Rawls's work, Andrew Levine suggests the possibility of a supra-liberal egalitarian political philosophy that incorporates the insights of recent developments in liberal theory, while reinvigorating the political vision of the historical Left.
Download or read book Liberal Equality written by Amy Gutmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-09-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a significant contribution to the tradition of liberal political theory: it explores the foundations and limits of the idea of equality within that theory and offers a sustained argument for a persuasive new view of liberalism. Liberal thinking has always displayed a tension between the claims of liberty and those of equality. Professor Gutmann examines the contributions of liberal theorists from Locke to Rawls on the subject of two kinds of equality - equality of opportunity to participate and the equal distribution of economic goods. Valuing both, she shows that, far from being alternatives, the two ideals are compatible to a much greater degree than has previously been thought. Liberal Equality restores egalitarianism to political theory in a way that will forcefully challenge its critics to deeper reflection.
Book Synopsis Liberalism, Justice, and Markets by : Colin M. Macleod
Download or read book Liberalism, Justice, and Markets written by Colin M. Macleod and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This systematic critique of Ronald Dworkin's theory of liberal equality focuses on the highly influential theory of liberal equality, revealing the hazards and limitations of basing the central ideas of liberalism on the logic of the market.
Book Synopsis Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression by : Andrew Kernohan
Download or read book Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression written by Andrew Kernohan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kernohan argues that a liberal state committed to moral equality must accept a strong role in reforming our cultural environment.
Book Synopsis Rethinking equality by : Chris Armstrong
Download or read book Rethinking equality written by Chris Armstrong and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Do contemporary theories of equality provide an adequate response to the inequalities that afflict contemporary societies? And what is the connection between theories of equality and the contemporary politics of citizenship? Accessible and comprehensive, Rethinking equality provides a clear, critical and very up-to-date account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories. Unusually, it also relates these theories to contemporary political practice, assessing them in relation to the impact of neoliberalism on contemporary welfare states, and the shift from ‘social’ to ‘active’ forms of citizenship. As well as representing a significant intervention within academic debates on equality and citizenship, this book represents essential reading for students of contemporary political theory.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Rights by : Abigail Levin
Download or read book Rethinking Rights written by Abigail Levin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Rights examines pornography and hate speech as test cases in advancing an argument for the liberal state to engage in activism in the name of equality for women and minorities. Such cases expose a core tension within liberalism between neutrality and equality, since state neutrality in the face of a systemically sexist and racist culture only reinforces that culture and further silences the speech of women and minorities within it. I argue that, on the liberal's own terms, the commitment to equality has priority over the commitment to neutrality. Once that has been established, I address two issues commonly raised by liberals against state activism: the question of how to ensure that the state is acting in the name of equality, rather than in its own, or some other, interest; and the issue that censorship, in any form, is anathema to liberalism. Both discussions raise issues of state power, particularly as it intersects with feminist speech act theory and with the work of Foucault and Judith Butler. These theories, taken together, turn both state power and the notion of censorship on their heads---no longer is hate speech about the power of the speaker, but about the power of the state in permitting or regulating it; no longer is censorship about state suppression after an utterance, but about the very production of utterances at all. Taking these insights on board, the liberal should be in a position to embrace state activism in the service of equality, not as a compromise of liberal principles, but as an entailment of those very principles.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism by : Hannah Dawson
Download or read book Rethinking Liberty before Liberalism written by Hannah Dawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflects on histories of freedom and republicanism through a major new reappraisal of Quentin Skinner's Liberty before Liberalism.
Book Synopsis Reviving the Left by : Dwight Furrow
Download or read book Reviving the Left written by Dwight Furrow and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Furrow's] proposals are fresh - he urges liberals to develop 'a more substantial moral identity' and win a few battles in the values war by building upon their 'inherent culture of caring,' repackaging the conservative movement's successful tactics for the Left.- Publishers WeeklyIn this fresh assessment of the liberal perspective on politics, philosopher Dwight Furrow explains how liberalism lost its moral credentials in the face of challenges from conservatives. He articulates a new way of understanding the moral foundations of liberalism that will restore its political fortunes along with America's shattered moral authority. A work of popular philosophy, Reviving the Left is written in a serious but lively, engaging, and often polemical style.Furrow begins by noting that political ideologies have the power to motivate people because they embody conceptions of how to live. Conservatives have understood this more clearly than liberals, who for too long have relied on bureaucratic solutions and interest-group politics, which have lacked moral credibility and passion. Now more than ever, says Furrow, progressive politics, if it is to move people hungry for change, needs a new vision that will give birth to a more substantial liberal moral identity.Furrow takes conservatism to task for promoting what he labels a culture of cynical, violent narcissism. But rather than praising the liberalism of the past, he argues that liberals must radically revise their conception of moral value in order to reverse the damage left behind by many years of conservative rule. Reviving the Left argues that liberals must build a culture of caring from the ground up by giving social institutions incentives to encourage a more prominent role in public life for empathy, compassion, and responsibility. Only in such a culture will liberal political initiatives have a chance to succeed in the long run.Unlike many books on reviving liberalism, which emphasize economics, policy debates, or political strategies, Furrow's Reviving the Left uniquely focuses on moral values and their philosophical underpinnings. Furrow's extensive use of references to popular culture, especially well-known films, and also topics of current political discourse makes for an exciting, contemporary rethinking of the liberal perspective with widespread appeal.Dwight Furrow (San Diego, CA), professor of philosophy at San Diego Mesa College, is the author of Ethics: Key Concepts in Philosophy and Against Theory: Continental and Analytic Challenges in Moral Philosophy. He is also the editor of Moral Soundings: Readings on the Crisis of Values in Contemporary Life.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Liberal Equality by : Andrew Levine
Download or read book Rethinking Liberal Equality written by Andrew Levine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a quarter century, academic political philosophy has been dominated by strains of liberal theory shaped decisively by John Rawls's seminal investigations of distributive justice and political legitimacy. By intervening sympathetically but critically into several ongoing debates initiated by Rawls's work, Andrew Levine suggests the possibility of a supra-liberal egalitarian political philosophy that incorporates the insights of recent developments in liberal theory, while reinvigorating the political vision of the historical Left. Taking current discussions about justice, equality and political neutrality as his points of departure, Levine suggests the need to rethink mainstream liberal understandings of equality and related notions. The rethinking he proposes lends support, ultimately, for a vision of ideal social and political arrangements of a kind intimated, though only barely sketched, in the work of Rousseau and Marx—a vision that, not long ago, was widely endorsed, but that nowadays is almost everywhere regarded as hopelessly utopian. In marked opposition to the reigning consensus view, Levine argues that, after compelling liberal concerns are taken into consideration, the vision of ideal social and political arrangements which motivated generations of progressive thinkers and political actors is anything but utopian and remains as timely today as it ever was. This vision, Levine insists, is indispensable for curing contemporary liberalism of its tendency to acquiesce in a status quo that is ultimately at odds with democratic, egalitarian and even liberal values.
Book Synopsis Regarding Equality by : Ellen M. Freeberg
Download or read book Regarding Equality written by Ellen M. Freeberg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarding Equality offers an innovative and controversial analysis of the relationship between equality and pluralism. Tackling an issue central to modern political thought, Freeberg highlights the struggle to characterize citizens as equals while respecting their moral, religious, and cultural diversity. The work ably contrasts and critiques the prevailing models for balancing equality with pluralism from thinkers Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson, Michael Oakeshott, and Drucilla Cornell. From these liberal, democratic, and conservative approaches to equality and pluralism, Freeberg builds a theory of responsive regard: reciprocal civility between citizens that forms a chastened conception of what we share as free and equal persons. This work will greatly add to political theorists' and philosophers' arsenals of concepts for egalitarian and democratic theory.
Book Synopsis The End Of Equality by : Mickey Kaus
Download or read book The End Of Equality written by Mickey Kaus and published by . This book was released on 1992-09-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gap between rich and poor keeps growing. Now comes a bold new strategy for liberals and the Democratic Party--published just as election-year interest peaks. Kaus's articles on this subject in The New Republic have aroused a storm of media controversy and have been cited in The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time.
Book Synopsis Liberalism, Justice, and Markets by : Colin M. Macleod
Download or read book Liberalism, Justice, and Markets written by Colin M. Macleod and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rethinking Racial Justice by : Andrew Valls
Download or read book Rethinking Racial Justice written by Andrew Valls and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The racial injustice that continues to plague the United States couldn't be a clearer challenge to the country's idea of itself as a liberal and democratic society, where all citizens have a chance at a decent life. Moreover, it raises deep questions about the adequacy of our political ideas, particularly liberal political theory, to guide us out of the quagmire of inequality. So what does justice demand in response? What must a liberal society do to address the legacies of its past, and how should we aim to reconceive liberalism in order to do so? In this book, Andrew Valls considers two solutions, one posed from the political right and one from the left. From the right is the idea that norms of equal treatment require that race be treated as irrelevant--in other words, that public policy and political institutions be race-blind. From the left is the idea that race-conscious policies are temporary, and are justifiable insofar as they promote diversity. This book takes issue with both of these sets of views, and therefore with the constricted ways in which racial justice is debated in the United States today. Valls argues that liberal theory permits, and in some cases requires, race-conscious policies and institutional arrangements in the pursuit of racial equality. In doing so, he aims to do two things: first, to reorient the terms of racial justice and, secondly, to make liberal theory confront its tendency to ignore race in favor of an underspecified commitment to multiculturalism. He argues that the insistence that race-conscious policies be temporary is harmful to the cause of racial justice, defends black-dominated institutions and communities as a viable alternative to integration, and argues against the tendency to subsume claims for racial justice, particularly as they regard African Americans, under more general arguments for diversity.
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Book Synopsis Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family by : James S. Fishkin
Download or read book Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family written by James S. Fishkin and published by New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three common assumptions of both liberal theory and political debate are the autonomy of the family, the principle of merit, and equality of life chances. Fishkin argues that even under the best conditions, commitment to any two of these principles precludes the third.
Book Synopsis Literature and Human Equality by : Stewart Justman
Download or read book Literature and Human Equality written by Stewart Justman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stewart Justman presents Western literature from Shakespeare, Dickens, and others, to show how they changed the appearance of literature with new ways of constructing a tale.
Book Synopsis Finding a New Feminism by : Pamela Grande Jensen
Download or read book Finding a New Feminism written by Pamela Grande Jensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays by prominent scholars of political theory contends that contemporary ideas of feminism have reached a theoretical impasse because they are unable to reconcile tensions between principles such as equality and difference. Finding A New Feminism places modern concepts of feminism within the historical context of political thought and uses feminism as a lens through which to examine the strengths and weaknesses of liberal democracy, both in practice and in theory. By reconsidering classic works of literature, philosophy, and political theory, the authors identify certain deficiencies of liberal democracy but do not call for its complete abandonment. Instead, they present a new theory of feminism that fosters the reconciliation of conflicting and competing principles, as well as the private and public realms of women's lives. This is compulsory reading for students and scholars of political and feminist theory.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Gender Politics in a Liberal Age by : Shireen Hassim
Download or read book Rethinking Gender Politics in a Liberal Age written by Shireen Hassim and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on the following three key questions: • To what extent, and under what conditions, have women in highly unequal societies managed to overcome differences of race, class and geographic location to create effective constituencies for pushing through welfare measures and other gender-sensitive policies that meet the needs of low-income women? • What constellation of political actors (political parties, states, civil society and social/women's movements) and forces have been most effective in representing and aggregating women's diverse interests and bringing them into the policy arena? • What are the different constraints across contexts impeding cross-class/race coalitions of women and the translation of their common gender interests into policies? Examined in some detail are India and South Africa. Paper Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand.
