Social Research articles from September 1994

Social Research archives from September 1994

Liberalism and the right to culture. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... Setting Up the Problem HUMAN beings have a right to culture--not just any culture, but their own. The right to culture has far-reaching implications for the liberal conception of the state. A culture essentially requires a group, and...

Notes on pluralism. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... CONSTITUTIONAL democracy exists in order to give people a chance to be individuals. You look around these days and what do you find? People--citizens of constitutional democracies--clamoring for their groups. They demand that they be understood...

Civil societies: liberalism and the moral uses of pluralism. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... Introduction THERE is no single, systematic theory of the relation between liberal government and civil society--"that sphere of autonomous institutions, protected by the rule of law, within which individuals and communities possessing...

Difference, dilemmas, and the politics of home. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... ... politics is only business and culture is only tradition unless both of them are worked over by a sense of the differend, which, moreover, is nobody's special prerogative (Lyotard, 1993, p. 10, emphasis added). IN A RECENT...

Liberalism for a world of ethnic passions and decaying states. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... THEORETICAL penury, not historical insensitivity alone, accounts for flawed diagnoses of liberal thought and practice. Locke and Mill, like Madison and Smith, are routinely caricatured, in an accusatory style, because detractors fail to grasp a...

A properly defended liberalism: on John Gray and the filling of political life. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... MICHAEL OAKESHOTT observed on the eve of the Second World War that, "Contemporary Europe presents the spectator with a remarkable variety of social and political doctrines; indeed, it is improbable that this collection of communities has ever...

Unfinished liberalism. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... WHAT IS THE condition of liberalism today? Recent years have produced startlingly different assessments. They range from Francis Fukuyama's celebrated claim that no significant ideological opposition to liberal democracy remains on the stage of...

Liberalism: from unicity to plurality and on to singularity. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... FOR A CENTURY or more there has been a respect in which liberalism has been to political theory and much Western political practice something like instruments of exchange are to economic interactions. While it is rare to find a champion of...

The singular and the plural: on the distinctive liberalism of Isaiah Berlin. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... JOHN GRAY'S ATTACK has several objects in view: among them a "tradition of liberal theorizing" that "does little more than articulate the prejudices of an Anglo-American academic class that lacks any understanding of political life in our age,"...

After the new liberalism. (Liberalism)
September 22, 1994... AS IT manifested itself in the writings of its principal exponents, during its moment of ephemeral hegemony in contemporary political philosophy, the new liberalism was recognizable by virtue of its exhibiting a family of commitments and...