The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-64724-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretching from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine through John Stuart Mill to Irving Howe, John Rawls, and Charles Mills.

Providing a comprehensive critical genealogy of liberal socialism from a sympathetic but critical standpoint, McManus traces its core to the Revolutionary period that catalyzed major divisions in liberal political theory to the French Revolution that saw the emergence of writers like Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine who argued that liberal principles could only be inadequately instantiated in a society with high levels of material and social inequality to John Stuart Mill, the first major thinker who declared himself a liberal and a socialist and who made major contributions to both traditions through his efforts to synthesize and conciliate them. McManus argues for liberal socialism as a political theory which could truly secure equality and liberty for all.

An essential book on the tradition of liberal socialism for students, researchers, and scholars of political science and humanities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcmanus, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Retrieving Liberal Socialism 1. What is Liberal Socialism? Part I: The Origins of Liberal Socialism 2. Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity 3. Thomas Paine’s Denaturalization of Inequality 4. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Egalitarian Rights of Man and Woman Part II: The Maturation of Liberal Socialism 5. John Stuart Mill-The First Liberal Socialist 6. Karl Marx’s Critique of Liberalism 7. Ethical Socialism and Social Democratic Reformism 8. C.B Macpherson’s Critique of “Possessive Individualism” 9. John Rawls’ Just Society 10. On Racial and Black Radical Liberalism Part III: The Future of Liberal Socialism 11. Chantal Mouffe, Norberto Bobbio, and Axel Honneth-Agonistic Liberal Socialism and the Dialectics of Recognition 12. A Future For Liberal Socialism?

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew McManus is a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Michigan, USA. He is the author of The Political Right and Equality (Routledge) and A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights among other books.