Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality

ISBN-13: 9780714644707 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 176 str.

Richard Bellamy; Martin Hollis

Opis

The crisis of liberalism is found in the liberal claim to endorse a set of neutral procedures that allow individuals and groups to pursue their own good, when the very possibility of such neutrality is brought into question by the growth of plural societies, and the divided loyalties that go with them. This collection explores this crisis. Modern states rely on agreements to secure the loyalty of citizens. But growing social pluralism means a growing division in loyalties among citizens along lines of ideology, ethnicity, gender, religion and locale. The liberal answer to diversity is to devise a set of fair procedures - which do not dictate the ultimate good chosen by members. The question which the contributors directly confront is whether such neutrality is genuinely possible.

Spis treści

Preface -- From Value Pluralism to Liberalism/George Crowder -- Liberal Legitimacy, Reasonable Disagreement and Justice/Simon Caney -- Neutrality and Recognition/Anna FJisabetta Gakotti -- Consensus, Neutrality and Compromise/Richard Bellamy and Martin Hollis -- Multiculturalism, Secularism and the State/Tariq Modood -- Imposing Liberal Principles/Andrew Mason -- Pluralism within the Limits of Reason Alone? Habermas and the Discursive Negotiation of Consensus/Samantha Ashenden -- Identity and Multicultural Politics/John Arthur -- The Idea of Cultural Patrimony/Timothy O’Hagan -- Notes on Contributors -- Abstracts -- Index.

O autorze

Richard Bellamy is Professor of Politics and International Relations at theUniversity of Reading. His many publications include Liberalism andModern Society (Polity, 1992), and (as co-editor with DarioCastiglione) Constitutionalism in Transformation (Blackwell, 1996).He is currently completing a book on ‘Liberalism and Pluralism:Towards a Politics of Compromise’ (Routledge, forthcoming). Martin Louis was Professor of Philosophy at the University of EastAnglia, Norwich from 1992 until his death in February 1998. AFellow of the British Academy, his numerous publications includedThe Cunning of Reason (Cambridge University Press, 1989),Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press,1994), and Trust within Reason (Cambridge University Press, 1998).