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The tragedy of liberalism : an alternative defense of a political tradition /
"Drawing on recent developments in liberal theory, Bert van den Brink develops an alternative defense of liberalism. He argues that liberal theorists should admit that their doctrine is not neutral with regard to conceptions of the good life - that it in fact fosters ideals of personal autonomy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in social and political thought.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Liberalism, pluralism, and tragedy
- Chapter 1: Liberalism and moral pluralism
- Liberalism
- Pluralism and how (not) to defend liberalism
- Chapter 2: The tragedy of liberalism
- Two views of tragic liberalism
- A working hypothesis
- Part 2: Political liberalism versus liberal perfectionism
- Chapter 3: Political liberalism: justification through public reason
- John Rawls: political liberalism
- The two-stage path to an overlapping consensus: a critique
- Chapter 4: Liberal perfectionism: autonomy and pluralism
- Joseph Raz: liberal perfectionism
- The limits of perfectionism
- Rephrasing some key concepts of liberal thought
- Conclusions to Part 2
- Part 3: Deliberative democracy as a way out?
- Chapter 5: Discourse theory and moral character
- Preliminary remarks on deliberative democracy
- Jurgen Habermas: theoretical foundations of public deliberation
- Discourse ethics and the limits of formalism and proceduralims
- Discourse ethics, moral character, and pluralism
- Chapter 6: Law, democracy, and deliberation
- Law and deliberative democracy
- The limits of deliberative democracy
- Another revision of key concepts of liberal thought
- Conclusions to Part 3
- Part 4: Liberal community, mutual recognition, and citizenship virtue
- Chapter 7: liberal community and the normative potential of tragic conflict
- Christoph Menke's typology of tragic conflicts
- Toward an understanding of liberal community
- Chapter 8: Struggles for recognition and tragic conflicts
- Axel Honneth's theory of recognition
- Struggles for recognition and the tragedy of liberalism
- Chapter 9: Vulnerability and responsibilities of liberal citizenship
- Vulnerability and responsibility
- Virtues and responsibility
- Virtues of liberal citizenship
- Conclusions to Part 4
- Chapter 10: Multiculturalism and cultural authenticity
- How (not) to talk about multiculturalism
- A liberal-communitarian perspective: Charles Taylor
- Chapter 11: Two liberal views of multiculturalism
- Jeremy Waldron's cosmopolitan alternative
- Will Kymlicka's "group-differentiated rights" approach
- Conclusions to Part 5.