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Liberalism and Its Discontents (Hardcover)
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Liberalism and Its Discontents (Hardcover)
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An illuminating examination of contemporary liberalism. -Times
Literary Supplement Neal does a fine job of showing the flaws in
leading academic theories and accounts of liberalism. He shows the
amazing vigor of Thomas Hobbes's ideas, now more than three
centuries old and still in many ways the clearest and best
expression of the liberal order. And he provides a salutary cold
shower for those grand dreamers among us who want liberalism not
only to order our lives, but also to inspire, to shape, to teach
us: 'A liberal order cannot even nearly fulfill the longings of the
heart and soul which move us.' -Michael Harvey, H-Net Should the
state be neutral with regard to the moral practices of its
citizens? Can a liberal state legitimately create a distinctively
liberal character in its citizens? Can liberal ideals constitute a
point of consensus in a diverse society? In Liberalism and Its
Discontents, Patrick Neal answers these questions and discusses
them in light of contemporary liberal theory. Approaching the topic
of liberalism from a sympathetic and yet immanently critical point
of view, Patrick Neal argues that the political liberalism of
theorists like John Rawls and the perfectionist liberalism of
theorists like Joseph Raz fail to fully express the generosity of
spirit which is liberalism at its best. Instead, Neal finds
resources for the expression of such a spirit in the much maligned
tradition of Hobbesian, or vulgar, liberalism. He argues that a
turn in this direction is necessary for the articulation of a
liberalism more genuinely responsive to the diversity of modes of
life in the twenty-first century.
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