Contemporary Theories of Liberalism : Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project.
Title:
Contemporary Theories of Liberalism : Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project.
Author:
Gaus, Gerald F.
ISBN:
9781412932110
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages)
Series:
SAGE Politics Texts series
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1 Liberalism and Reason -- 1.1 Freedom, reason and the 'Enlightenment View' -- 1.2 Free reasoning and diversity of beliefs: challenges to the Enlightenment View -- 1.3 Liberalism and public reason -- 1.4 Seven Post-Enlightenment liberalisms -- 2 Pluralistic Liberalism: Making Do Without Public Reason? -- 2.1 Berlin's Post-Enlightenment liberal project -- 2.2 What is pluralism? The plurality of objective values -- 2.3 What is pluralism? The incommensurability of conflicting values -- 2.4 Pluralism and liberalism -- 2.5 Summary and conclusion -- 3 Hobbesian-inspired Liberalism: Public Reason Out of Individual Reason -- 3.1 Liberalism as a modus vivendi: another route from pluralism to liberalism? -- 3.2 Hobbesian public reason -- 3.3 Substantive public reason as a solution to the Hobbesian paradox -- 3.4 Summary -- 4 Collective Reason: Deepening the Social Roots of Public Reason -- 4.1 Freeing public reason from private reason -- 4.2 Public reason as cooperative reasoning -- 4.3 The social roots of reason: Baier's modified Hobbesian -- 4.4 Wittgensteinian-inspired socialized reasoning: is all reason public reason? -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Deliberative Democracy: Public Reason and Political Consensus -- 5.1 Habermas: discourse and democracy -- 5.2 Liberal deliberative democracy -- 5.3 Is deliberative democracy a consistent ideal? -- 5.4 Minimizing reason to maximize agreement -- 5.5 Summary -- 6 Political Democracy: Public Reason Through Aggregation -- 6.1 Aggregative democracy -- 6.2 Popular will theory -- 6.3 Epistemic democracy -- 6.4 Estlund's modest epistemic conception -- 6.5 Summary -- 7 Rawls's Political Liberalism: Public Reason as the Domain of the Political -- 7.1 Political liberalism: the basic idea.
7.2 What is the political? Comprehensive conceptions distinguished from political values in terms of three features -- 7.3 What is the political? The 'a priori' interpretation -- 7.4 What is the political? The political as a constructed realm of reasonable agreement -- 7.5 Political liberalism and deliberative democracy -- 7.6 Conclusion and summary -- 8 Justificatory Liberalism and Adjudicative Democracy: Public Reason and Umpiring -- 8.1 Why reason publicly? -- 8.2 Public justification -- 8.3 When public reasoning is inconclusive -- 8.4 The liberal umpire -- 8.5 Adjudicative democracy: deliberative, procedural and weakly epistemic -- 8.6 Summary and conclusion -- Index.
Abstract:
`The author has provided us with a masterful overview and critique of liberal theorizing of the past quarter-century. While dealing exhaustively and fairly with each of a variety of broadly liberal approaches, Gaus also presents a compelling argument for his own preferred "justificatory" approach. His analyses range across familiar territory - Berlin, Gauthier, Baier, Habermas, social choice theory, Rawls, and so on - and are always illuminating and, taken together, provide both the newcomer and the old-hand much to ponder' - Fred D'Agostino, University of New England, Armidale `[A]ll that man is and all that raises him above animals he owes to his reason' - Ludwig von Mises Contemporary Theories of Liberalism provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key tenets of liberalism developed through Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Rawls to present day theories and debates. Central to recent debate has been the idea of public reason. The text introduces and explores seven dominant theories of public reason, namely, pluralism, Neo-Hobbesianism, pragmatism, deliberative democracy, political democracy, Rawlsian political liberalism and justificatory liberalism. As a proponent of justificatory liberalism, Gaus presents an accessible and critical analysis of all contempoary liberal political theory and powerfully illustrates the distinct and importsant contribution of justificatory liberalism. Contemporary Theories of Liberalism is essential reading for students and academics seeking a deeper understanding of liberal political theory today.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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