..., interest, and ideology--that fill this space." ...The idea of civil society, then, can receive both liberal and communitarian interpretation, depending on whether one emphasizes individual libe...
...hat opposes civil society to the state. And I want to argue that no version of the two-part model, whether liberal and/or Marxian, whereby civil society includes everything outside of the state sector...
...re ..."). One of the attractions of civil society is that it naturally overcomes the anomie latent in liberal ism. What one must do is to keep the two from fusing, keep the "I" from bei...
...communitarian debates are not, therefore, engagements between traditionalists and anti-traditionalists, or liberal s and restorationists. Rather, the intensity of, and interest in, this discussion is b...
...alston, Mary Ann Glendon, and Amitai Etzioni, with an editorial board that includes both conservatives and liberal s, ranging from Nathan Glazer and Ilene Nagel, to Martha Nussbaum and Benjamin Barber....
...ociety. In the course of this re-imagining of the progressive agenda, we have to be willing to learn from liberal ism. And one of the things that is necessary to learn from liberal ism is the inevitabi...
...elves as autonomously deciding for themselves what to do. This is, as it were, a conflict between moralist liberal ism and liberal romanticism, or between bourgeois common sense and bourgeois self-crea...
...g period of consistency, but I have not been happy with the attenuated moral vision that afflicts American liberal ism. Socialism had such a vision, but it carried too much ideological baggage,...
...gical tyranny) within the overall complex of spheres of social activity. What's left then? A somewhat liberal idea, but a strong version of it: checks and balances--not only between the branches ...
...depend on? There are several different answers, each of them depending on their theoretical background. Neoliberal s or neoclassical economists stress the meaning of the "invisible hand" of a...
...her decentralization will bring better results is still an open question. Many experts doubt that economic liberal ization can work in this region in the foreseeable future, since no basis for a market...
...not only how societies can govern themselves (self-rule, law-rule), but also what constitutes their unity. Liberal ism has answered these questions with a model guided by market rationality: the social...
...nd the thinking of materialist theories of historical progress. Here I would face the fire of lumping both liberal ism in its traditional form and Marxism in its traditional forms as parts of this, whi...
...won't have us for a while." And the elegant, well-educated, appealingly honest, and radically neo-liberal Vaclav Klaus vehemently defended the British position: Poland, Hungary and the former...
...onomy beyond their origins, perhaps answering a basic human need not to be the Robinson Crusoes of extreme liberal ideology. In any event, it is as historically spurious as it is politically hazardous...
...heory about democracy, Hunter talks to the culturally engaged: religious fundamentalists of all faiths and liberal modernists concerned with individual and group rights. He finds that " America i...
...tsky, Pitthart, Jiciansky, and Dobrovsky among the founders of a movement that characterized itself as the Liberal Center. Some of the former reform communists turned even further right. Within the C...
There are indeed liberal and productive forms of capitalism. Invariably, these bear the indelible imprint of Western socialism or of solidaristic social Christianity. The collapse of the Communist reg
...l democracy is presently suffering from the impact of the events in the East and the proclaimed triumph of liberal capitalism. Claims for social justice, economic democracy and struggles against inequ...
...f step with history. As long as Europe remains little more than an alibi for surrendering or converting to liberal ism, it will continue to be a non entity. The basic foundation for a European renaiss...
...that are its landmark. Yet, more than a decade of Thatcherism and Reaganism did not provide support to neo-liberal doctrines that ultimately led the British and American economies to the verge of an a...
