Liberalism and Modern Society: A Historical Argument - Brossura

Bellamy, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0271008806 ISBN 13: 9780271008806

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

This major new book is a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of liberalism, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Bellamy examines the evolution of liberal ideas in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, discussing the work of Mill, Green, Durkeim, Weber, and Pareto, among others. He situates their theories firmly within their respective historical contexts, illustrating in this way the contingency of many of the social and moral assumptions underlying liberal thought. For modern societies have undergone profound changes in the course of the last century, and Bellamy argues that these changes have severely undermined many of the key tenets of liberalism.

The final part of the book examines critically the elaboration of liberal ideas in the work of contemporary political philosophers such as Hayek, Nozick, and Rawls. Bellamy shows how the liberalisms of these writers rest on social views and moral intuitions that are now anachronistic and untenable. He maintains that only a democratic liberalism built on realistic foundations can provide a plausible political theory in the complex and pluralist societies of the modern world.

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Book by Richard Bellamy

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• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0271008806
• ISBN 13: 9780271008806
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320