The tragedy of liberalism : an alternative defense of a political tradition /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
2000.
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| Series: | SUNY series in social and political thought
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=46852 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.