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The Struggle for a Decent Politics - Michael Walzer

The Struggle for a Decent Politics

On "Liberal" as an Adjective

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Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2023
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-26723-5 (ISBN)
CHF 36,65 inkl. MwSt
A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era
 
“Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky shoals. In his preface, he writes that this may be his last book. One hopes not.”—James Traub, New York Times
 
There was a time when liberalism was an ism like any other, but that time, writes Michael Walzer, is gone. “Liberal” now conveys not a specific ideology but a moral stance, so the word is best conceived not as a noun but as an adjective—one is a “liberal democrat” or a “liberal nationalist.”
 
Walzer itemizes the characteristics described by “liberal” in an inventory of his own deepest political and moral commitments—among other things, to the principle of equality, to the rule of law, and to a pluralism that is both political and cultural. Unabashedly asserting that liberalism comprises a universal set of values (“they must be universal,” he writes, “since they are under assault around the world”), Walzer reminds us in this inspiring book why those values are worth fighting for.

Michael Walzer is emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. One of America’s foremost political thinkers, he served as editor of the political journal Dissent for more than three decades. He lives in Princeton, NJ.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-300-26723-1 / 0300267231
ISBN-13 978-0-300-26723-5 / 9780300267235
Zustand Neuware
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