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Against Values - Philip J. Harold

Against Values

How to Talk About the Good in a Postliberal Era
Buch | Softcover
238 Seiten
2024
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7415-9 (ISBN)
CHF 52,35 inkl. MwSt
As a systematic introduction to the philosophical foundations of postliberalism, this timely book reveals how the idea of personal values have served to divide and segregate people rather than uniting them under a shared common good. Also discussed are the contemporary interplay of sovereignty and morality and religion and politics.
Today’s wholesale lack of trust in our institutions is a problem with deep roots in liberalism, and it cannot be solved by tweaking a liberal paradigm in which different conceptions of the good create conflict that is resolved by a sovereign state without reference to a nonexclusive common good. Ultimately, the essence of liberalism is contained in the language of values which serve as wedges to divide people.

Philip J. Harold takes this problem head-on with a thoroughgoing survey, reaching back to the early modern era, to uncover the nature of liberalism’s basic assumptions and diagnose its breakdown. As opposed to traditional liberal denial of a good superior to individual interest, Harold proposes a postliberal political philosophy able to understand the common good as friendship and social trust built up by loyalty. While critiquing values language, Harold also addresses the concept of sovereignty and the invention of morality as its supplement, the inappropriate distinction between the empirical and the transcendental, the true nature of the secular and the sacred, the necessarily symbolic expression of the common good, and the false conceptualization of religion and politics.

Philip J. Harold is dean of Constantin College of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas and was formerly professor and associate dean in the School of Informatics, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Robert Morris University. His previous books include Other People’s Money: Politics in Pennsylvania and Prophetic Politics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 150 x 227 mm
Gewicht 372 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-5381-7415-4 / 1538174154
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-7415-9 / 9781538174159
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