Politics and Passion – Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism - Softcover

Walzer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300115369 ISBN 13: 9780300115369

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Distinguished political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a provocative reappraisal of the core tenets of liberalism. Ranging over contested issues including multiculturalism, pluralism, difference, civil society, and racial and gender justice, he suggest ways in which liberal theory might be revised to make it more hospitable to the claims of equality. "[An] elegant and probing critique of contemporary liberal thought."-G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs "With his usual originality, clarity, depth, and intelligent judgments, Michael Walzer offers a perspective on political life that reveals serious inadequacies in standard liberal views and points to directions of change."-Robert Dahl, Sterling Professor Emeritus, Yale University

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Review:

"This clearly and engagingly written book shows up the thinness of much contemporary liberal theory. Informed by his social democratic convictions, Walzer allows the real dilemmas of egalitarian liberalism to surface, and faces them honestly, without the conjuring tricks and obfuscation that philosophy can lend itself to."--Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University

Synopsis:

Distinguished political philosopher Michael Walzer offers a provocative reappraisal of the core tenets of liberalism. Ranging over contested issues including multiculturalism, pluralism, difference, civil society, and racial and gender justice, he suggest ways in which liberal theory might be revised to make it more hospitable to the claims of equality.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0300115369
• ISBN 13: 9780300115369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208