Post-Liberalism

Recovering a Shared World
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-094990-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Liberal democracy is the dominant political ideology in the West today. Taken at face value it suggests an equivalency between its two central components--liberalism and democracy--but as Fred Dallmayr argues here, the two operate in very different registers. The two frequently conflict, endangering our public life.This is evident in the rise of self-centered neo-liberalism as well as autocratic movements in our world today.

More specifically, the conflict within liberal democracy is between the pursuit of individual or coporate interest, on the one hand, and a "people" increasingly fractured by economic and cultural clashes, on the other. Dallmayr asks whether there is still room for genuine privacy and authentic democracy when all public goods, from schools to parks, police, and armies, have been made the target of privatization. In this book, Dallmayr sets out to rescue democracy as a shared public and post-liberal regime. Nonetheless, "post-liberalism" does not involve the denial of human freedom nor does it suggest the endorsement of illiberal collectivism or nationalism. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary political, religious, and secular thought, Dallmayr charts a possible path to a liberal socialism that is devoid of egalitarian imperatives and a private sphere free from acquisitiveness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dallmayr, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface iv

- 1. Introduction:

- Liberalism and Democracy

- 2. Beyond Autistic Politics:

- Narcissism and Public Agency

- Interlude A: Public Space as Property?

- Thinking at the Edge of the Cave

- 3. Virtue in Social and Public Life:

- Aristotle and His Heirs

- 4. Between Life and Violent Death:

- Is there a Natural Right(ness)?

- 5. Socialism as Democratic Justice:

- A Concrete Utopia

- Interlude B: The Politics of Virtue?

- A Post-Liberal Agenda

- 6. Contesting Globalization:

- Reflections on "Glocalism"

- 7. Nationalism and Beyond

- World History and Redemption

- 8. Self-Will and All-Will:

- Schelling and Heidegger on Freedom

- 9. Chaosmos:

- Maintaining the World-Under Heaven

- 10. Concluding Comments:

- Learning to be Human

- Notes

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Dallmayr is the Packey J. Dee Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Notre Dame University. He is the author of thirty books, including Democracy to Come.