Democratic Individuality

Alan Gilbert

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Състояние:: Много добро
Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

За изданието

Издателство:: Cambridge University Press
Град на издаване:: Cambrige
Година:: 1990 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 510
Корици:: Меки
Категория:: Политология и социология

Table of contents: Preface Introduction Part I - THE THEORY OF POLITICAL FREEDOM AND INDIVIDUALITY: SLAVERY, MUTUAL REGARD, AND MODERN EGALITARIANISM: 1 - A common good and justice in war 2 - The capacity for moral personality and the ambiguities of liberalism 3 - Empiricism, neo-Kantianism, and realism in science and ethics 4 - Neo-Kantianism and moral realism PART II - DEMOCRACY AND INDIVIDUALITY IN MODERN SOCIAL THEORY 5 - Historical materialism and justice 6 - Two kinds of historical progress 7 - The Aristotelian lineage of Marx's eudaemonism 8 - Radical democracy and individuality 9 - The Protestant Ethic and Marxian theory 10 - Nationalism and the dangers of predatory “liberalism” 11 - Democracy and status 12 - Bureaucracy, socialism, and a common good 13 - Levels of ethical disagreement and the controversy between neo-Kantianism and realism Conclusion: the project of democratic individuality Bibliography Index This ambitious and sweeping book presents a powerful argument against moral relativism and in favor of the objectivity of a theory of democratic individuality. Unlike much recent work in this field, the book does not simply adumbrate such a view. Rather, it develops the parallels between various versions of scientific and moral realism, and then reinterprets the history and internal logic of democratic theory, maintaining, for example, that the abolition of slavery represents genuine moral progress. The book also recasts the clashes between Marxist and Weberian, radical and liberal sociologies in the light of these moral claims, and sketches the institutions of a radical democracy. Reviews & endorsements "The book presents an acute, historically informed, and unusually optimistic argument about moral progress. Striking in its intellectual breadth, [it] makes a significant contribution to the case that the social sciences are, at bottom, moral sciences." Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology