Stephen Mulhall (Essex University, Oxford All Souls College), Adam Swift (Oxford Balliol College)

Liberals and Communitarians

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.
Content expanded to included coverage of Dworkin and Rawls new work Political Liberalism (1993).
Authors are two of the brightest younger lecturers in political philosophy.

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With an account of Rawls's "A Theory of Justice", this book gives presentations of the work of the main communitarians: Michael Sandel, Alisdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor and Michael Walzer. With an agenda of themes and issues, it should be a useful aid to students of contemporary political theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9780631198192
• ISBN-10: 0631198199
• Artikelnr.: 22119687

Autorenporträt

Stephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of On Being in the World (1990). Adam Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Sociology at Balliol College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to Second Edition.
Preface to First Edition.
Acknowledgements.
Abbreviations.
Introduction: Rawls's Original Position.
Part I: Communitarian Critiques:.
Introduction.
1. Sandel: The Limits of Liberalism.
2. MacIntyre: Morality After Virtue.
3. Taylor: The Sources of the Liberal Self.
4. Walzer: Justice and Abstraction.
Concluding Summary.
Part II: Rawls's Response.
5. Rawls's Political Liberalism.
6. Political Liberalism and the Communitarian Critique.
7. Political Liberalism: Political or Comprehensive?.
Part III: Liberalism, Politics and Neutrality.
8. Rorty: Liberalism Without Foundations.
9. Dworkin: Philosophical Foundations for State Neutrality.
10. Raz: The Politics of Perfection.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index.