Realm of Lesser Evil, 1st Edition
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2009
Summary
Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was ‘the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.’ The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves ‘masters and possessors of nature’, it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for themselves.
As Michea shows, the roots of t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745646213 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745646212 |
| Author: | Jean-Claude Michea |
| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 218g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 138mm x 14mm |
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“In this highly original study of contemporary free-trade liberalism, Jean-Claude Michea develops and brings to a conclusion his decade-long duel with the bankrupt thinking of the institutionalized Left. The originality of Michea’s approach consists in his strenuous effort to discover and unravel the original populist themes in Marx’s work, themes that return - recycled and somewhat refashioned - in present-day liberal individualism. This allows him to rewrite, in a controversial yet fascinating manner, the history of modernity. The result is a book that should be widely read and discussed and should stir up debate across the social sciences, drowning as they now are in a stale concoction of yesterday’s intellectual fashions.” Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of the University of Leeds
About The Author
Jean-Claude Michea
Jean-Claude Michéa is Professor of Philosophy at Lycée Joffre in Montpellier.
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