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Willful Liberalism - Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice (Paperback, New)
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Willful Liberalism - Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice (Paperback, New)
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In this book Richard E. Flathman argues vigorously for a new
understanding of the proper place of voluntarism, individuality,
and plurality in the political and moral theory of liberalism.
Giving close and sympathetic attention to thinkers who are seldom
considered in debates about liberalism, he draws upon thinking
within and outside the liberal canon to articulate a refashioned
liberalism that gives a more secure prominence to plurality and a
robust individuality. Flathman focuses on political philosophers
whose work deals with willfulness and the will in human practice.
He is concerned with the thinking of such nominalist medieval
theologians as John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham; of Hobbes;
and of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James.
He also explores the writings of such contemporary philosophical
psychologists as Brian O'Shaughnessy and, in particular,
Wittgenstein, and of such twentiethcentury political theorists as
Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Hannah Arendt, and especially Michael
Oakeshott. Appropriating ideas from widely disapproved thinkers and
from theological sources commonly thought to be incompatible with
liberalism, he formulates what is in many ways a strongly personal
statement, one that is unorthodox and potentially disturbing.
Sharply controversial, Willful Liberalism is certain to enliven and
invigorate political and moral debate, and it may well help to
revive liberalism as the dominant public philosophy of our culture,
setting it on a new and better course.
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