The Return of the Common Good

The Postliberal Project Left and Right
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-87359-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

In this book, Stefan Borg reconstructs and engages a contemporary strand of thought known as postliberalism. Postliberalism, Borg argues, advances a distinct critique of liberalism, as well as an emphasis on the common good as a corrective to the perceived shortcomings of liberalism. The central claim is that the two dominant forms of post-World War II liberalism, market liberalism and social liberalism, rather than being somehow opposed, have coalesced around a political project that above all seeks to maximize the conditions under which individual autonomy can be exercised. As a result, the liberal sociopolitical order has become increasingly inept at nurturing the communal resources that underpin human sociability.

A work of contemporary intellectual history, Borg re-creates the birth of postliberalism, compares both British and American strands of postliberal thinking and reconstructs postliberalism across disciplines. In addition, Borg argues that while the postliberal critique resonates with segments on the political Right as well as the Left, postliberal prescriptions, which revolve around the promotion of the common good, are more controversial.

Engaging and thought-provoking, The Return of the Common Good: The Postliberal Project Left and Right is suitable for a broad set of readers and an invaluable guide to further debates on liberalism and populism.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Borg, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Introduction  Chapter 1: From Radical Orthodoxy to Donald Trump. An Intellectual History of Postliberalism  Chapter 2: History and Social Order. The Theoretical Core of Postliberalism  Chapter 3: From Contract to Association. Postliberalism and International Politics  Chapter 4: The Dark Sides of the Sexual Revolution and the Dawn of Bio-libertarianism. Postliberal Feminism.  Chapter 5: The Return of the Common Good. Postliberal Alternatives  Conclusion: Postliberalism in the Age of Hyperpolitics

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Borg is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Swedish Defence University. His current research agenda includes contemporary critics of liberalism, as well as U.S. foreign and security policy. He has previously written a book on the theoretical foundations of European integration European Integration and the Problem of the State: A Critique of the Bordering of Europe (2015), and published articles in a number of international journals.