Liberalism
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Liberalism
（Concepts in the social sciences）
Open University Press, 1995
2nd ed
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Includes bibliography (p. [104]-106) and index
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: pbk ISBN 9780335194223
Description
Since the publication in 1986 of the first edition of 'Liberalism', both the world and the author's views have changed significantly. In this second edition, John Gray argues that, whereas liberalism was the political theory of modernity, it is ill-equipped to cope with the dilemmas of the postmodern condition. Developments in philosophy have undermined the attempts of liberal theorists to give liberal institutions a universal foundation in reason, while developments in political life have overturned the Enlightenment philosophy of history on which liberal theory depends. The liberal project - the project of stating universal principles which persons and communities with divergent conceptions of the good and differing views of the world can accept as framing terms of peaceful coexistence - has foundered. The task now, as Gray sees it, is to develop a pluralist political theory, in which the liberal problem of finding a modus vivendi among rival communities and worldviews is solved in postliberal terms.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Historical
The pre-modern anticipations of liberalism
Liberalism in the early modern period
Liberalism and the enlightenment
The liberal era
The revival of classical liberalism
Part Two: Philosophical
The search for foundations
The idea of freedom
Individual liberty, private property and the market economy
The liberal state
The attack on liberalism
Conclusion
post-liberalism
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN 9780335194759
Description
Since the publication in 1986 of the first edition of "Liberalism", both the world and the author's views have changed significantly. In this second edition, John Gray argues that, whereas liberalism was the political theory of modernity, it is ill-equipped to cope with the dilemmas of the postmodern condition. Developments in philosophy have undermined the attempts of liberal theorists to give liberal institutions a universal foundation in reason, while developments in political life have overturned the Enlightenment philosophy of history on which liberal theory depends. The liberal project - the project of stating universal principles which persons and communities with divergent conceptions of the good and differing views of the world can accept as framing terms of peaceful coexistence - has foundered. The task now, as Gray sees it, is to develop a pluralist political theory, in which the liberal problem of finding a modus vivendi among rival communities and worldviews is solved in postliberal terms.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Historical: the pre-modern anticipations of liberalism
- liberalism in the early modern period
- liberalism and the Enlightenment
- the liberal era
- the revival of classical liberalism. Part 2 Philosophical: the search for foundations
- the idea of freedom
- individual liberty, private property and the market economy
- the liberal state
- the attack on liberalism
- conclusion - post-liberalism.
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