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The politics of virtue : post-liberalism and the human future / John Milbank and Adrian Pabs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milbank, John, author.
- Pabst, Adrian, author.
- Series:
- Future perfect: images of the time to come in philosophy, politics and cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberalism--Philosophy.
- Liberalism.
- Political ethics.
- Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Democracy.
- Culture--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Culture.
- International relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (419 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]
- Summary:
- Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions ‘negative liberty’ and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left – free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life. The triumph of liberalism has had the effect of subordinating human association and the common good to narrow self-interest and short-term utility. By contrast, post-liberalism promotes individual fulfilment and mutual flourishing based on shared goals that have more substantive content than the formal abstractions of liberal law and contract, and yet are also adaptable to different cultural and local traditions. In this important book, John Milbank and Adrian Pabst apply this analysis to the economy, politics, culture, and international affairs. In each case, having diagnosed the crisis of liberalism, they propose post-liberal alternatives, notably new concepts and fresh policy ideas. They demonstrate that, amid the current crisis, post-liberalism is a programme that could define a new politics of virtue and the common good.
- Contents:
- The metacrisis of liberalism
- The post-liberal alternative
- The metacrisis of capitalism
- The civil economy alternative
- The metacrisis of democracy
- The mixed Constitution alternative
- The metacrisis of culture
- Culture as formation
- The metacrisis of the nations
- Commonwealth, culture and covenant.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781783486502
- 1783486503
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