Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Struggle for a Decent Politics : On "Liberal" as an Adjective, Hardback Book

The Struggle for a Decent Politics : On "Liberal" as an Adjective Hardback

Hardback

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

A testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era   “Walzer is perhaps our foremost pilot on these rocky shoals.

In his preface, he writes that this may be his last book.

One hopes not.”—James Traub, New York Times   There was a time when liberalism was an ism like any other, but that time, writes Michael Walzer, is gone. “Liberal” now conveys not a specific ideology but a moral stance, so the word is best conceived not as a noun but as an adjective—one is a “liberal democrat” or a “liberal nationalist.”   Walzer itemizes the characteristics described by “liberal” in an inventory of his own deepest political and moral commitments—among other things, to the principle of equality, to the rule of law, and to a pluralism that is both political and cultural.

Unabashedly asserting that liberalism comprises a universal set of values (“they must be universal,” he writes, “since they are under assault around the world”), Walzer reminds us in this inspiring book why those values are worth fighting for.

Information

Save 0%

£20.00

£19.95

Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information