Description
Liberal political thought-from its origins in the seventeenth-century through today's rights discourse-is grounded in the ideal of the autonomous individual. As the theory holds, these individuals are "born in freedom" from religious, political, social or economic obligations and then construct these systems through individual and collective choices. Over the past thirty years, however, this understanding of freedom has been challenged from a variety of perspectives.
Eldon J. Eisenach has been at the forefront of that challenge, stressing the centrality of religious elements and assumptions in liberal writings that many scholars suppressed or ignored. In Narrative Power and Liberal Truth Eisenach brings together eleven of his previously published essays to demonstrate that many "postmodernist" ideas of persons and freedom are already present within the tradition of liberal political philosophy and that liberalism itself is more capacious of human experience and meanings than modern critiques allow.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 On Reducing Hobbes
Chapter 3 Hobbes on Church, State, and Religion
Chapter 4 Liberal Virtues
Part 5 Locke and Bentham
Chapter 6 Body-Truth and Sprit-Truth in Locke's Way of Knowing
Chapter 7 Religion and Locke's Two Treatises of Government
Chapter 8 The Dimension of History in Bentham's Theory of Law
Chapter 9 Crime, Death, and Loyalty in English Liberalism
Part 10 Mill
Chapter 11 Mill's Autobiography as Political Theory
Chapter 12 Self-Reform as Poltical Reform in teh Writings of John Stuart Mill
Chapter 13 Mill and Liberal Christianity
Chapter 14 John Stuart Mill and the History of Political Thought
Product details
| Published | 15 Aug 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781461714675 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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