Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy: Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education

ISBN 13:
9780415957045
ISBN 10:
0415957044
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 08/17/2009
Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

In moving beyond the theses of liberalism and neoliberalism that have provided philosophical support to free-market economics from the 1970s until the present, this book seeks to re-theorize social democracy by reconsidering issues such as totalitarianism, freedom, the role of the state, and the political arrangements needed for the future.

The Poverty of Liberalism Restated
Liberalism and the Enlightenment: The Metaphysic of Reason
Reason, Autonomy and Morality
The Alternative Conception of Anti-Rationalism: David Hume and Friedrich Hayek
The Thin Community: Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Quentin Skinner and James Tully
Towards the `Thin' Community
Thinking the Subject of Democracy
Democracy and the Good: Foucault and Power Relations
Reasonable Equality
Nietzsche and the Charge of Elitism
The Common Good and Liberal Detractors
Nussbaum and Foucault on Historicism, Relativism and the Good
Freedom and the Foucauldian World
Conclusions
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Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy: Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education

9780415957045

0415957044

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