Rethinking liberalism
by Bellamy, Richard, (Richard Paul)
This book explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J.S. Mill, through T.H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F.A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the pluralism and complexity of modern societies have undermined liberalism's communitarian and ethical assumptions. Studies of the Poll Tax fiasco in Britain…
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- Full title :Rethinking liberalism / Richard Bellamy.
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This book explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J.S. Mill, through T.H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F.A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the pluralism and complexity of modern societies have undermined liberalism's communitarian and ethical assumptions. Studies of the Poll Tax fiasco in Britain, and of the constitutional dilemmas posed by the European Union confirm the contemporary inadequa.
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- Publication Date:2000.
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- Publisher(s):Pinter / Continuum
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2000.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (272 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780826425171, 0826425178, 9781474213158, 1474213154, 9780826477415, 0826477410, 9781441116246, 1441116249
- oclc:ocn276294343
- LC Classification:JC574
- Dewey Decimal:320.51
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