The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary LiberalismMark Evans This publication, from Edinburgh University Press, is conceived as the premier source of material on a comprehensive range of topics in contemporary liberalism. It surveys some of the most important topics relating to liberal theory including nationalism, citizenship, multiculturalism, feminism, Marxism, environmentalism, human rights, pluralism, and post-communism. There are also chapters on such key thinkers as Habermas, Weber, Foucault, and Rawls, and chapters that explore the critical challenges that liberalism now faces. Companion to Contemporary Liberalismwill allow students to explore liberalism's contemporary relevance and to look to its likely future developments: each essay-entry, by a notable scholar in the field, has been commissioned to provide analysis of a specific issue, topic or key thinker within contemporary liberal theory. |
Contents
Issues and Trends in Contemporary Liberalism | 3 |
Development or Transformation? | 21 |
Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice | 35 |
Liberalism and Citizenship | 51 |
Liberalism and the Power of the Nation 385 | 63 |
Liberal Citizenship and Feminism | 75 |
Liberalism and the Politics of Recognition | 89 |
The Essential Indeterminacy of Rawlss Difference Principle | 101 |
Pluralism and the Republican Alternative to Liberalism | 175 |
Accommodating Republicanism | 188 |
The Autonomous Individual Feminist Critiques and Liberal Replies | 195 |
The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting | 208 |
The European Union as a Supranational Liberal Legal Order | 225 |
The Idea of a LiberalDemocratic Peace | 241 |
Liberalism and Postcommunism | 269 |
Liberalism Ecocentrism and Persons | 287 |
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