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Liberalism and Its Discontents

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Patrick Neal

    1. University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Neutrality and the Good in Liberal Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Patrick Neal
      Pages 3-14

    3. Liberalism and Neutrality

      • Patrick Neal
      Pages 15-33

    4. A Liberal Theory of the Good?

      • Patrick Neal
      Pages 34-47

  4. Alternative Liberalisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Perfectionism With a Liberal Face? Nervous Liberals and Raz’s Political Theory

      • Patrick Neal
      Pages 135-161

    3. Dworkin on the Foundations of Liberal Equality

      • Patrick Neal
      Pages 162-184

    4. Vulgar Liberalism

      • Patrick Neal
      Pages 185-205

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 207-209
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In these essays the reigning models of liberal political theory of John Rawls and Joseph Raz are immanently criticized. Neal argues that neither 'political' nor 'perfectionist' liberalism adequately gives expression to the liberal spirit. Surprisingly, Neal finds resources for the expression of such a spirit in the much maligned tradition of Hobbesian, or 'vulgar', liberalism. He argues that a turn in this direction is necessary for the articulation of a liberalism more genuinely responsive to the diversity of modes of life in the twenty-first century.

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  • University of Vermont, Burlington, USA

    Patrick Neal

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