Fr. 210.00

Liberalism and Social Justice - International Perspectives

English · Hardback

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List of contents

Contents: Foreword, Vlastimil Fiala; Introduction; Liberal democracy in transitional Azerbaijan: challenges and prospects, Gulia Taghiyeva; Unemployment benefits: Social justice or ’social hammock’?, Doris Schroeder; Liberalism and social justice: voyaging between conceptual antipodes in the good ship democracy, Ian Duncanson; Why pluralism?, Alison Assiter; Reasonableness, pluralism and democracy: a pragmatic approach, Stephen de Wijze; The freeman and his doubles: reading Mill’s On Liberty, Judith Grbich; The liberalist ’esprit analytique’ as a hindrance to social justice, Kalle Pihlainen; From Metaphysics to Pragmatism: Rorty on liberalism and social justice, Justin Cruickshank; The individual at the end of history, Lubica Ucnik; ’Community’ - an instrument of social order other than the state? A rhetorical perspective on contemporary American critiques of liberalism, Petri Koikkalainen; Communitarianism and immigration: Walzer on ’Members and strangers’, Phillip Cole; Liberal state and polity in the era of globalization: social injustice, governance and resistance in the global-local nexus, Majid Yar; Territorial states: what are they good for? Who needs them? Daniel Kofman; Sentiment or Duty? Liberalism and international justice, Byron Kaldis; Contributors.

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Gideon Calder, Edward Garrett

Summary

This title was first published in 2000:  Bringing together a range of viewpoints and disciplines, this collection of essays explores the capacity of liberalism to properly provide for social justice in the shifting contexts of the new millennium.

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