Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy

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Routledge, 2009 - 273 páginas

Liberalisms, a work first published in 1989, provides a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking over the past century and considers the dominance of liberal thought in Anglo-American political philosophy over the past 20 years. John Gray assesses the work of all the major liberal political philosophers including J. S. Mill, Herbert Spencer, Karl Popper, F. A Hayek, John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and explores their mutual connections and differences.

 

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Chapter 1 JS Mill and the future of liberalism
1
Chapter 2 The liberalism of Karl Popper
10
Chapter 3 Social contract community and ideology
28
Chapter 4 On negative and positive liberty
45
Chapter 5 Freedom slavery and contentment
69
Chapter 6 Hayek on liberty rights and justice
89
Chapter 7 Spencer on the ethics of liberty and the limits of State interference
103
Chapter 8 Indirect utility and fundamental rights
120
Chapter 9 Liberalism and the choice of liberties
140
Chapter 10 Contractarian method private property and the market economy
161
Chapter 11 Oakeshott on law liberty and civil association
199
Chapter 12 Mills and other liberalisms
217
after liberalism
239
Index
267
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John Gray was born on April 17, 1948 in South Shields, England. He received a B.A., M.Phil., and D.Phil. from Exeter College, Oxford. He taught at several universities including the University of Essex, Jesus College, Oxford, and the University of Oxford. He retired as Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008. He contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and the New Statesman, where he is the lead book reviewer. He is the author of several books including False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and The Death of Utopia, and The Immortalisation Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death.

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