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

by Wolfe, Christopher; Hittinger, John P.

• ISBN13: 9780847678754
• ISBN10: 084767875X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-05-31
• 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. ix
Introduction to the First Edition	p. xiii
The Liberalism of John Rawls: A Brief Exposition	p. 1
The Egalitarian Liberalism of Ronald Dworkin	p. 21
The Hegemonic Liberalism of Susan Moller Okin	p. 41
Robert Nozick and the Foundations of Political Individualism	p. 61
Richard Posner: Pragmatist, Classical Liberal, and Legal Anti-Positivist	p. 77
Beyond the Procedural Republic: The Communitarian Liberalism of Michael Sandel	p. 97
Alasdair MacIntyre: Recovering the Rationality of Traditions	p. 121
Inescapably a Liberalist: Richard Rorty as Social Theorist	p. 141
The Unorthodox Liberalism of Joseph Raz	p. 161
William Galston's Defense of Liberalism: Forging Unity amid Diversity	p. 177
The New Natural Law Theory of John Finnis	p. 197
Index	p. 217
Contributors	p. 229
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