Human Flourishing, Liberal Theory, and the Arts: A Liberalism of Flourishing

ISBN-13: 9780815396208 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 198 str.

Menachem Mautner

Opis

The idea of a ‘liberalism of flourishing’ makes two major claims: the good life is one in which an individual succeeds in developing her intellectual and moral capabilities, and it is the function of the state to create the conditions that allow for this. Combining the history of ideas with analytical political philosophy, Menachem Mautner finds the roots of the theory in the works of great philosophers and argues that for individuals to reach a 'liberalism of flourishing' they need to engage with art.

O autorze

Menachem Mautner is the Danielle Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Civil Law and Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. He holds a LL.B and a LL.M from the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University, and a LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. He is the author of six books, including Law and the Culture of Israel published in 2011. (An Italian version, Dirito e Cultura in Israele, translated with an introduction by Daniela Bifulco and Fulvio Cortese, was published in 2014 by Franco Angeli, Milano.) Mautner has edited six books, and published over 90 articles and chapters in books in Israel, the United States and Britain (including in the law reviews of Yale, Michigan and Cornell universities). In 2014 he served as head of the "Sapir Prize of Literature Committee", the Israeli equivalent of the British Man Booker Prize for Fiction.