Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom

This book offers an original account of the history of liberal thought, one grounded in an institutional history of medieval pluralism and the early modern rationalizing state, and explores the deep tensions that liberal political thought rests upon.

List of contents

• Part 1


• 1: Freedom, Associations, and Uniformity


• 2: Two Approaches


• 3: Reunderstanding Intermediate Groups


• Part 2


• 4: Antecedents and Foundations


• 5: The Ancient Constitution, the Social Contract, and the Modern State


• 6: Montesquieu and Voltaire, Philosophes and Parlements


• 7: The Age of Revolutions


• 8: Centralization in a Democratic Age: Tocqueville and Mill


• 9: From Liberal Constitutionalism to Pluralism


• Part 3


• 10: The Constitution of Group Life


• 11: Associations are not states


• Conclusion: Against Synthesis


• Conclusion: Against Synthesis

About the author

Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and coordinator of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies at McGill University, and a member of the Montreal Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique.

Summary

This book offers an original account of the history of liberal thought, one grounded in an institutional history of medieval pluralism and the early modern rationalizing state, and explores the deep tensions that liberal political thought rests upon.

Additional text

This really is a crucial argument and serves as a stern reminder that there is no such thing as the superior virtue of the oppressed.

Product details

• Authors: Jacob T Levy, Jacob T. Levy, Jacob T. (Tomlinson Professor of Political T Levy, Jacob T. (Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory Levy, Levy Jacob T.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9780198717140
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871714-0
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Self-tuition materials (general); Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory