The American Ideology: A Critique

ISBN-13: 9780415945509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 184 str.

Andrew Levine

Opis

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Preface Foreword INTRODUCTION Left, Right and Center The American Ideology A Democratic Alternative 1. REASON The Idea of Reason The Death of Socrates Is Reason Bad for the Oppressed? 2. IDEOLOGY Natural Selection The Spirit of Capitalism The Protestant Ethic An Optimal Ethic Weber's Lead 3. MEANS-ENDS RATIONALITY The Individual and Society The New Science Hobbesian Sovereignty Optimality Utilitarianism Efficiency Macro-Level Consequences of Micro-Level Choices 4. THE INVISIBLE HAND Smith Was (Partly) Right Market Socialism Information Deficits Shades of Hayek Externalities Market Incompetences Competition Economies of Scale 5. EFFICIENCY AS IDEOLOGY Efficiency and the Soviet Model Problems of Planned Economies Market Solutions? Efficiency Reified Who Benefits? A Vicious Circle 6. THE REASONABLE Liberalism From Tolerance to Neutrality The Neutral and the Reasonable Social Unity Reasonableness 7. DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY Collective Choice Rousseauean Theories Proceduralism Rousseau Without the General Will Implementation Must We Retract Democracy In Order to Save It? 8. WHICH WAY FORWARD? Deweyan Reconstruction Democratizing the Economic Sphere Reconstructing Rawls What Is To Be Done?

O autorze

Andrew Levine is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of many books, including Engaging Political Philosophy (2001) and A Future for Marxism? (2003).