Research Catalog

Title

Liberalism / John Gray.

Author

Gray, John, 1948-

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xiii, 113 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Since the publication in 1986 of the first edition of Liberalism, both the world and the author's views have changed significantly. In this new edition, John Gray argues that whereas liberalism was the political theory of modernity, it is ill equipped to cope with the dilemmas of the postmodern condition. The task now, as Gray sees it, is to develop a pluralist theory in which the liberal problem of finding a modus vivendi among rival communities and worldviews is solved in postliberal terms.

Series Statement

Concepts in social thought

Uniform Title

Concepts in social thought.

Subject

• Liberalism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [104]-106) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Unity of the Liberal Tradition -- 1. The Pre-modern Anticipations of Liberalism -- 2. Liberalism in the Early Modern Period -- 3. Liberalism and the Enlightenment: The French, American and Scottish Contributions -- 4. The Liberal Era -- 5. The Revival of Classical Liberalism -- 6. The Search for Foundations -- 7. The Idea of Freedom -- 8. Individual Liberty, Private Property and the Market Economy -- 9. The Liberal State -- 10. The Attack on Liberalism -- Conclusion (1994): Postliberalism.

ISBN

• 0816628009
• 0816628017 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95016277^

OCLC

32392751

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library