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The Myth of Liberal Individualism

By Colin Bird

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521641284, 9780521641289
Open Library ID
OL376659M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13162276 bytes)
Pages
236\117
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Colin Bird mounts a powerful and original challenge to the traditional view that the ideas associated with the liberal political tradition--the meaning of political freedom, the notion of inviolable human rights, the idea of privacy--cohere around an "individualist" conception of the relation among individuals, society and the state. He argues that by taking this conception for granted, theorists have exaggerated the unity and integrity of liberal political ideals, and limited our perception of the issues they raise.

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