Liberalism and Social Justice: International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138727939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Gideon Calder; Edward Garrett

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Gideon Calder, Edward Garrett