Liberalism as Ideology

Essays in Honour of Michael Freeden
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-960067-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 625 g

Liberalism is the dominant ideology of our time, yet its character remains the subject of intense scholarly and political controversy. Debates about the liberal political tradition - about its history, its central philosophical commitments, its implications for political practice - lie at the very heart of the discipline of political theory. Many outstanding political theorists have contributed to the growing sophistication of these debates in recent years, but the original voice of Michael Freeden deserves particular attention. In the course of a body of work that spans over thirty years, Freeden's iconoclastic contributions have posed important challenges to the dominant understandings of liberal ideology, history, and theory. Such work has sought to redefine the very essence of what it is to be a liberal. This book brings together an international group of historians, philosophers, and political scientists to evaluate the impact of Freeden's work and to reassess its central claims.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Ben

Stears, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- List of Contributors

- Preface: Return of the Native

- Introduction

- Part I: Liberal Languages

- 1: David Leopold: A Cautious Embrace: Reflections on (Left) Liberalism and Utopia

- 2: Ben Jackson: Socialism and the New Liberalism

- 3: Rochana Bajpai: Liberalisms in India: An Exploratory Sketch

- 4: Marc Stears: Liberalism and American Stories of Peoplehood

- 5: Bo Strath: The Liberal Dilemma: The Economic and the Social, and the Need for a European Contextualization of a Concept with Universal Pretensions

- 6: Paolo Pombeni: The Problem of Political Parties in Western Liberalism, 1868-1968

- Part II: Ideologies and Political Theory

- 7: David Weinstein: Liberalism and Analytical Political Philosophy

- 8: Andrew Vincent: Political Ideology and Political Theory: Reflections on an Awkward Partnership

- 9: Gerald Gaus: Ideology, Political Philosophy, and the Interpretive Enterprise: A View from the Other Side

- 10: Gayil Talshir: Civil Society and the Reconstruction of the Public Sphere: Ideologies between Theory and Politics

- 11: Michael Kenny: In Defence of Political Understanding?

- 12: Mathew Humphrey: Getting 'Real' About Political Ideas: Conceptual Morphology and the Realist Critique of Anglo-American Political Philosophy

- 13: Michael Freeden: The Professional Responsibilities of the Political Theorist

- Michael Freeden: A Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Jackson works on modern British history, with particular interests in political thought, labour history, and the history of social and economic policy. He is the author of Equality and the British Left (2007), and is currently writing about the intellectual history of neo-liberalism. He is Fellow in History at University College, Oxford.

Marc Stears was previously Fellow in Social and Political Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of books and articles in radical political theory and concentrates especially on the role that radical movements have played in shaping modern democracies. He is currently Fellow in Politics at University College, Oxford.