The Liberal Tradition in Focus: Problems and New PerspectivesJoão Carlos Espada, Marc F. Plattner, Adam Wolfson The Liberal Tradition in Focus is a collection of essays by prominent scholars in their fields on the nature of liberalism at the close of the twentieth century. Using a variety of analytical and substantive approaches, the authors compare the "old liberalism" of Locke, Smith, Hume, and Montesquieu to the variety of "new liberalisms" of thinkers such as Rawls, Dworkin, and Foucault. Each chapter of this engaging volume takes up a particular theme--democracy, capitalism, morality, feminism, toleration, constitutionalism, Third Way liberalism--and considers how the new liberalism's understanding differs from the old. The Liberal Tradition in Focus will be a valuable addition to the collections of scholars and students of political science and political philosophy. |
Contents
The Tradition of Liberty and Why It Does Matter | 5 |
Constitutionalism Old and New | 17 |
What Remains of Toleration? | 27 |
From Liberalism to Liberal Democracy | 39 |
Rousseau between Two Liberalisms His Critique of the Older Liberalism and His Contribution to the Newer One | 53 |
The Paradoxes of the Third Way | 67 |
The Liberation of Women Old and New | 81 |
Two Concepts of Liberalism | 97 |
Political Liberalism and Reasonable Diversity | 111 |
Political Economy and the Development of Liberalism | 121 |
Liberalism and Community On the Natural Weakness of the Party of Liberty | 133 |
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