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Jean-Claude Michea - Realm of Lesser Evil - 9780745646213 - V9780745646213
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Realm of Lesser Evil

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Description for Realm of Lesser Evil Paperback. Unravelling the logic that lies at the heart of the liberal project, this book sheds light on one of the key ideas that have shaped the civilization of the West. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 214.
Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was ‘the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’ The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves ‘masters and possessors of nature’, it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for themselves.

As Michea shows, the roots of this pessimism lie in the idea – an eminently modern one – that the desire to establish ... Read more

And yet while liberalism set out to be a realism without illusions, today liberalism presents itself as something else. With its celebration of the market among other things, contemporary liberalism has taken over some of the features of its oldest enemy. By unravelling the logic that lies at the heart of the liberal project, Michea is able to shed fresh light on one of the key ideas that have shaped the civilization of the West.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745646213
SKU
V9780745646213
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Ref
99-23

About Jean-Claude Michea
Jean-Claude Michéa is Professor of Philosophy at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier.

Reviews for Realm of Lesser Evil
"In this highly original study of contemporary free-trade liberalism, Jean-Claude Michea develops and brings to a conclusion his decade-long duel with the bankrupt thinking of the institutionalized Left. The originality of Michea's approach consists in his strenuous effort to discover and unravel the original populist themes in Marx's work, themes that return - recycled and somewhat refashioned - in present-day ... Read more

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