Skepticism, Individuality, and Freedom: The Reluctant Liberalism of Richard Flathman - Couverture souple

Honig, Bonnie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816639701 ISBN 13 : 9780816639700

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2002

Synopsis

Major thinkers grapple with the challenge of this renowned liberal thinker.

As one of liberal theory's most important gadflies, Richard Flathman has during the past four decades produced a significant body of work that is iconoclastic, idiosyncratic, and increasingly influential. Flathman criticizes liberal theory's role in justifying a politics of governance that has drifted substantially from liberalism's central commitments to individuality and freedom. It is this challenge, and its implications for the future of liberal theory, that brings together the diverse and distinguished authors of this volume. Topics include the relationships between theory and practice, skepticism and knowledge, individuality and egoism, negative and positive freedom, Hobbes and liberalism, as well as the uneasy connections among liberalism, feminism, and democratic politics.

Contributors: Ronald Beiner, U of Toronto; Jane Bennett, Goucher; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins; Peter Digeser, U of California, Santa Barbara; Richard Friedman, SUNY, Buffalo; Nancy J. Hirschmann, Cornell; George Kateb, Princeton; Patrick Neal, U of Vermont; Anne Norton, U of Pennsylvania; Richard Tuck, Harvard; Jeremy J. Waldron, Columbia; Linda Zerilli, Northwestern.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bonnie Honig is professor of political science at Northwestern University and a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. David R. Mapel is associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816639701
• ISBN 13: 9780816639700
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
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