The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism

Mark Evans

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2001

The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism

Mark Evans

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474468107

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About this book

A major new reference volume - The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism is the premier collection of material on a comprehensive range of topics in contemporary liberalism.

Liberal theory has been caricatured by its critics as an abstract, unworldly, trivial philosophical navel-gazing pursuit. The Companion counters this view by showing how liberalism can tackle wide-ranging practical concerns that urgently demand attention in twenty-first century politics. Rather than presenting contemporary liberalism simply and narrowly as a survey of what its main academic protagonists have said over the past 30 years, the guiding principle of the volume is to conceptualise it primarily as a set of themes and approaches informed by the challenges to the practice of liberal politics.

Issues such as human rights, citizenship, nationalism, feminism, international communities, supranational orders, post-communism and ecocentrism take their place alongside the more familiar and well-worked themes of justice and justification as topics for liberal theorising. The reader is vividly shown the ways in which liberalism engages directly with the problems of practical political life today.

This wide-ranging account of contemporary liberal thinking places the emphasis on agenda-setting, showing that contemporary liberalism is live - relevant, proactive, continuously engaged and adaptable - and that the problems faced by the liberal order are sufficiently complex and perplexing to demand the serious, rigorous philosophical reflection offered by contemporary liberal political theory.

The Companion allows the reader to explore liberalism's contemporary relevance and to look to its likely future developments. With contributors including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden, Richard Bellamy, Rex Martin, Margaret Canovan, Diana T. Meyers, and Kate Soper, this large, definitive edition will be a must-buy for all libraries and a key reference tool for all those with an interest in contemporary liberalism.

Key Features

Major reference work - the only comprehensive reference work on contemporary liberalism
Shows how liberalism is relevant to practical issues such as human rights, citizenship, international communities and post-communism
Looks to the future development of liberalism
Contributions from the leading figures in the field of liberalism including Will Kymlicka, Michael Freeden and Rex Martin

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Part One: The Liberal Trajectory
1. Issues and Trends in Contemporary Liberalism Mark Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Twentieth-Century Liberal Thought: Development or Transformation? Michael Freeden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Part Two: Citizenship: Universalism and Particularism
3. Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice Will Kymlicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. Liberalism and Citizenship Andrew Vincent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
5. The Sword of Faith and the Shield of Fear: Liberalism and the Power of the Nation Margaret Canovan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
6. Liberal Citizenship and Feminism Andrea Baumeister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part Three: Justice: Identity and Distribution
7. Liberalism and the Politics of Recognition Jonathan Seglow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
8. The Essential Indeterminacy of Rawls’s Difference Principle Rex Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
9. Rawlsian Theory, Contemporary Marxism and the Difference Principle Rodney G Peffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part Four: Problems of Liberal Justification
10. Disenchantment and the Liberalism of Fear Peter Lassman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
11. Pragmatist Liberalism and the Evasion of Politics Mark Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
12. Liberalism and Contingency Bruce Haddock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part Five: Liberalism versus Republicanism?
13. Back to the Future: Pluralism and the Republican Alternative to Liberalism Richard Bellamy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
14. Accommodating Republicanism David Rasmussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Part Six: The ‘Autonomous Individual’: Feminist Critiques and Liberal Replies
15. Liberalism, Feminism, Enlightenment Kate Soper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
16. Feminism and Women’s Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting Diana Tietjens Meyers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Part Seven: Liberalism Beyond the Nation-State
17. Civil Association: The European Union as a Supranational Liberal Legal Order Robert Bideleux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
18. The Idea of a Liberal-Democratic Peace Howard Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
19. Constructing International Community: Liberal Theory, Developmental Communitarianism and International Ethics Peter Sutch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Part Eight: New Directions for Liberal Thinking
20. Liberalism and Post-communism Richard Sakwa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
21. Liberalism, Ecocentrism and Persons Brian Baxter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
22. Prolegomenon to a Liberal Theory of the Good Life Mark Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Politics

eBook

Published: June 7, 2001
ISBN: 9781474468107