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Liberalism And Its Discontents
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Author : Francis Fukuyama
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2022-05-10
Liberalism And Its Discontents written by Francis Fukuyama and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-10 with Political Science categories.
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order. Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes the rights of individuals to pursue their own forms of happiness free from encroachment by government. It's no secret that liberalism didn't always live up to its own ideals. In America, many people were denied equality before the law. Who counted as full human beings worthy of universal rights was contested for centuries, and only recently has this circle expanded to include women, African Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and others. Conservatives complain that liberalism empties the common life of meaning. As the renowned political philosopher Francis Fukuyama shows in Liberalism and Its Discontents, the principles of liberalism have also, in recent decades, been pushed to new extremes by both the right and the left: neoliberals made a cult of economic freedom, and progressives focused on identity over human universality as central to their political vision. The result, Fukuyama argues, has been a fracturing of our civil society and an increasing peril to our democracy. In this short, clear account of our current political discontents, Fukuyama offers an essential defense of a revitalized liberalism for the twenty-first century.
Liberalism And Its Discontents
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Author : Alan Brinkley
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998
Liberalism And Its Discontents written by Alan Brinkley and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
How did liberalism, the great political tradition that from the New Deal to the 1960s seemed to dominate American politics, fall from favor so far and so fast? In this history of liberalism since the 1930s, a distinguished historian offers an eloquent account of postwar liberalism, where it came from, where it has gone, and why. The book supplies a crucial chapter in the history of twentieth-century American politics as well as a valuable and clear perspective on the state of our nation's politics today. Liberalism and Its Discontents moves from a penetrating interpretation of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal to an analysis of the profound and frequently corrosive economic, social, and cultural changes that have undermined the liberal tradition. The book moves beyond an examination of the internal weaknesses of liberalism and the broad social and economic forces it faced to consider the role of alternative political traditions in liberalism's downfall. What emerges is a picture of a dominant political tradition far less uniform and stable--and far more complex and contested--than has been argued. The author offers as well a masterly assessment of how some of the leading historians of the postwar era explained (or failed to explain) liberalism and other political ideologies in the last half-century. He also makes clear how historical interpretation was itself a reflection of liberal assumptions that began to collapse more quickly and completely than almost any scholar could have imagined a generation ago. As both political history and a critique of that history, Liberalism and Its Discontents, based on extraordinary essays written over the last decade, leads to a new understanding of the shaping of modern America.
Liberalism And Its Discontents
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Author : Patrick Neal
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Liberalism And Its Discontents written by Patrick Neal and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Political Science categories.
In these essays the reigning models of liberal political theory of John Rawls and Joseph Raz are immanently criticized. Neal argues that neither 'political' nor 'perfectionist' liberalism adequately gives expression to the liberal spirit. Surprisingly, Neal finds resources for the expression of such a spirit in the much maligned tradition of Hobbesian, or 'vulgar', liberalism. He argues that a turn in this direction is necessary for the articulation of a liberalism more genuinely responsive to the diversity of modes of life in the twenty-first century.
Summary Of Francis Fukuyama S Liberalism And Its Discontents
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-07-22T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Francis Fukuyama S Liberalism And Its Discontents written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-22T22:59:00Z with Political Science categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Liberalism is defined by its emphasis on individual autonomy, egalitarianism, and universalism. It is a doctrine that asserts the moral primacy of the person against the claims of any social collectivity. It is highly procedural, and law is simply a system of explicit rules that define how conflicts are resolved and collective decisions made. #2 While democracy is based on the rule of the people, liberalism is based on the rule of law, which restricts the powers of the executive. Liberal democracy is what has prevailed in North America, Europe, parts of East and South Asia, and elsewhere since the end of World War II. #3 There are three basic justifications for liberal societies: pragmatic, moral, and economic. The first is that liberalism is a way of regulating violence and allowing diverse populations to live peacefully with one another. The second is that liberalism protects human dignity and autonomy, and in particular human autonomy. #4 Classical liberalism is a solution to the problem of governing over diversity. It is based on the principle of tolerance, which states that you do not have to agree with your fellow citizens about the most important things, but only that each individual should get to decide what they are without interference from you or the state.
Modern Liberty And Its Discontents
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Author : Pierre Manent
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Modern Liberty And Its Discontents written by Pierre Manent and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian origins of modernity, Tocqueville's analysis of democracy, the political role of Christianity, the nature of totalitarianism, and the future of the nation-state. As a whole, the book constitutes a meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permanent discontents which accompany it. Manent is particularly concerned with the effects of modern democracy on the maintenance and sustenance of substantial human ties. Modern Liberty and its Discontents is both an important contribution to an understanding of modern society, and a significant contribution to political philosophy in its own right.
Political Order And Political Decay
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Author : Francis Fukuyama
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-09-30
Political Order And Political Decay written by Francis Fukuyama and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-30 with History categories.
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two." Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West. A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.
Political Liberalism Confucianism And The Future Of Democracy In East Asia
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Author : Zhuoyao Li
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Political Liberalism Confucianism And The Future Of Democracy In East Asia written by Zhuoyao Li and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Philosophy categories.
This book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia. Beyond John Rawls’ original intention to limit the scope of political liberalism to only existing and well-ordered liberal democracies, political liberalism has the potential to inspire and contribute to democratic establishment and maintenance in East Asia. Specifically, the book has two main objectives. First, it will demonstrate that political liberalism offers the most promising vision for liberal democracy, and it can be defended against contemporary perfectionist objections. Second, it will show that perfectionist approaches to political Confucianism suffer from practical and theoretical difficulties. Instead, an alternative model of democracy inspired by political liberalism will be explored in order to achieve a multivariate structure for citizens to come to terms with democracy in their own ways, to support a neutral state that ensures the establishment and stability of democracy, and to maintain an active public role for Confucianism to prevent it from being banished to the private sphere. This model represents a more promising future for democracy in East Asia.
Liberalism And Its Critics
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Author : Michael J. Sandel
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1984-12
Liberalism And Its Critics written by Michael J. Sandel and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-12 with Political Science categories.
Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic, a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre.
Democracy S Discontent
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Author : Michael J. Sandel
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1998-02-06
Democracy S Discontent written by Michael J. Sandel and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-06 with History categories.
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Identity
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Author : Francis Fukuyama
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Identity written by Francis Fukuyama and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Social Science categories.
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018 Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: increasing in anti-immigrant sentiment, rioting on college campuses, and the return of open white supremacy to our politics. In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American and global institutions were in a state of decay, as the state was captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatens to destabilise the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to 'the people', who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. Identity is an urgent and necessary book: a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continual conflict.