The Oxford Handbook of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780197681176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 544 str.

Recenzje

As a masterpiece of the liberty tradition, The Oxford Handbook of Freedom is a refreshing alternative to the voluminous literature dominated by the debates over John Rawls's works. Rawls's liberty principle and political liberalism have been for decades the most discussed concepts in political philosophy. Philosophers explored in great detail the theoretical subtleties of Rawls's ideas and their relationships with other theories: utilitarian, contractarian, Kantian, Marxist, feminist, communitarian, postmodern, and others. The theoretical explorations also strongly affected the domain of political doctrines, where liberal egalitarian and social democratic ideals colonized public political discourse. Other conceptions of liberty and liberalism have been pushed under the shadow of that predominant paradigm. The Handbook demonstrates that the leading paradigm is not the only one, and, apparently, not the best one.

O autorze

David Schmidtz is Presidential Chair of Moral Science at West Virginia University's Chambers College of Business and Economics. Before that, he was Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic at the University of Arizona. While there, he served as founding Head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science and founding Director of the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. Since 2012, he has been Editor of Social Philosophy Policy. Carmen Pavel is Reader in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London.