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Wilful Liberalism

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Description for Wilful Liberalism Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPFK; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 457.

In this book Richard E. Flathman argues vigorously for a new understanding of the proper place of voluntarism, individuality, and plurality in the political and moral theory of liberalism. Giving close and sympathetic attention to thinkers who are seldom considered in debates about liberalism, he draws upon thinking within and outside the liberal canon to articulate a refashioned liberalism that gives a more secure prominence to plurality and a robust individuality.

Flathman focuses on political philosophers whose work deals with willfulness and the will in human practice. He is concerned with the thinking of such nominalist medieval theologians as John ... Read more

Sharply controversial, Willful Liberalism is certain to enliven and invigorate political and moral debate, and it may well help to revive liberalism as the dominant public philosophy of our culture, setting it on a new and better course.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801499555
SKU
V9780801499555
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About Richard Flathman
The late Richard Flathman (1934–2015) was the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University. Known for his influential application of the methods of analytic philosophy to questions in political science, he was the author of many books, including Pluralism and Liberal Democracy and Reflections of a Would-Be Anarchist: Ideals and Institutions of Liberalism.

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