Liberalism at the Crossroads An Introduction to Contemporary Liberal Political Theory and Its Critics

by Wolfe, Christopher; Benestad, J Brian; Bradley, Gerard V.; George, Robert P.; Hall, Terry; Hittinger, John; Nowlin, Jack Wade; Pakaluk, Michael; Reiser, Joseph R.; Wagner, David M.; Wolf-Devine, Celia; Wolfe, Christopher; Wright, R George

• ISBN13: 9780742532700
• ISBN10: 0742532704
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-18
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Liberalism at the Crossroads offers succinct, accessible, and well-written surveys of the ideas of the leading participants in the contemporary philosophical debate about liberalism. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface to the Second Edition	ix
Introduction to the First Edition	xiii
Christopher Wolfe and John Hittingen
1 The Liberalism of John Rawls: A Brief Exposition	1	(20)
Michael Pakaluk
2 The Egalitarian Liberalism of Ronald Dworkin	21	(20)
Christopher Wolfe
3 The Hegemonic Liberalism of Susan Moller Okin	41	(20)
Celia Wolf Devine
4 Robert Nozick and the Foundations of Political Individualism	61	(16)
R. George Wright
5 Richard Posner: Pragmatist, Classical Liberal, and Legal Anti-Positivist	77	(20)
Jack Wade Nowlin
6 Beyond the Procedural Republic: The Communitarian Liberalism of Michael Sandel	97	(24)
Terry Hall
7 Alasdair MacIntyre: Recovering the Rationality of Traditions	121	(20)
David M. Wagner
8 Inescapably a Liberalist: Richard Rorty as Social Theorist	141	(20)
Gerard V Bradley
9 The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz	161	(16)
Robert P. George
10 William Galston's Defense of Liberalism: Forging Unity amid Diversity	177	(20)
J. Brian Senestad
11 The New Natural Law Theory of John Finnis	197	(20)
Joseph R. Reisert
Index	217	(12)
Contributors	229