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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162697503321

Autore

Lukes Steven

Titolo

Liberals and cannibals the implications of diversity / / Steven Lukes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Verso, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78478-648-9

1-78478-649-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 pages)

Disciplina

320.51

Soggetti

Liberalism

Political science - Philosophy

Ethical relativism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Moral Diversity and Relativism -- 2. Is Universalism Ethnocentric? -- 3. Liberalism for the Liberals -- Cannibalism for the Cannibals -- 4. Different Cultures, Different Rationalities? -- 5. On Comparing the Incomparable: Trade-offs and Sacrifices -- 6. The Singular and the Plural -- 7. Must Pluralists Be Relativists? -- 8. An Unfashionable Fox -- 9. Social Justice: The Hayekian Challenge -- 10. Humiliation and the Politics of Identity -- 11. The Communitarian Voice -- 12. Five Fables about Human Rights -- 13. The Last Word on the Third Way -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Taking as his starting point Robert Frost's accusation that a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument, Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism." "While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism, Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy, he examines the nature of social justice,



the politics of identity and human rights theory, as well as discussing how ideas drawn from the work of Isaiah Berlin can shed light on these debates."--Jacket.