Overview
- Offers an interdisciplinary approach, looking at socialism and liberalism through an economic, legal, political, and literary-cultural lens.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and stakes at play in the dispute between liberalism and socialism.
- Presents a broad array of perspectives, including a diversity of ideological perspectives ranging from committed Marxists to libertarians
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Law and Rights in Contemporary Liberalism and Socialism
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The Political Theory of Liberalism and Socialism in the 21st Century
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About this book
In times of pandemic and global economic crisis, little more than a decade after the last, there are serious questions about how the liberal order can stand, who its friends are, and what the future will look like. This edited collection provides a comprehensive overview of the principles and stakes at play in the dispute between liberalism and socialism. It explores the 21st century appeal of socialism, particularly to millennials and other relatively young citizens, and shows why modern classical liberalism and neoliberalism have generated tepid support, leading to the resurgence of socialism after it was thought dead and buried due to the dramatic failures of statist models in 1989.
The authors put modern socialism and liberalism into renewed dialogue with another to examine whether the two can coexist peacefully, or even reach an overlapping consensus on social reform going forward. It delves into the history and theory of both liberalism and socialism to determine points of overlap and tension, in addition to a cross-disciplinary interpretive analysis of the present epoch to determine how both traditions have evolved since the 20th century. The book is interdisciplinary and provides a broad array of perspectives including a diversity of ideological perspectives ranging from committed Marxists to libertarians. It will be of interest to academics and students in economics and contemporary political culture.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Matthew McManus is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics at Whitman College, Washington, USA. He is the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law amongst other books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Liberalism and Socialism
Book Subtitle: Mortal Enemies or Embittered Kin?
Editors: Matthew McManus
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79537-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79536-8Published: 01 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-79539-9Published: 02 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-79537-5Published: 31 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economics, general, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Political Theory, Political Philosophy