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Genre/Form: | Book |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Gray |
ISBN: | 0415007445 9780415007443 0415071364 9780415071369 |
OCLC Number: | 19130671 |
Description: | ix, 273 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Preface and acknowledgements -- J.S. Mill and the future of liberalism -- The liberalism of Karl Popper -- Social contract, community, ideology -- On negative and positive liberty -- Freedom, slavery and contentment -- Hayek on liberty, rights and justice -- Spencer on the ethics of liberty and the limits of State interference -- Indirect utility and fundamental rights -- Liberalism and the choice of liberties -- Contractarian method, private property and the market economy -- Oakeshott on law, liberty and civil association -- Mill's and other liberalisms -- Postscript: after liberalism -- Index. |
Responsibility: | John Gray. |
Abstract:
Gives a coherent and comprehensive analytical guide to liberal thinking over the past century and considers its dominance in Anglo-American political philosophy over the past twenty years.
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