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1. Verfasser:	Shelley, Trevor (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Paris University of Notre Dame Press 2020
Schlagworte:	Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat > baron de > 1689-1755 Tocqueville, Alexis de > 1805-1859 Manent, Pierre POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization / bisacsh Globalization > Philosophy Liberalism > Philosophy POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Online-Zugang:	DE-188
Zusammenfassung:	"We live in anagewhere"progressive" intellectualspresuppose that true democracy demands the affirmation of "global values" and the drive toward a world government, a"universal and homogenous state." Intellectuals, journalists, and educators bemoan the effects of "globalization" even as they uncritically endorse cosmopolitanism and dismissnational attachments as parochial and outdated. They confuse thoughtful patriotism - and commitment to the self-governing nation - with the narrowest form of nationalism. In a wonderfullylucid and learned essay, Trevor Shelley recovers a humane liberal tradition, from Montesquieu to Manent, that takes the political seriously and does full justice to the legitimate claims of both universality and particularity. Whether discussing Tocqueville's critique of the pantheistic reveries of democratic man or Pierre Manent's erudite defense of the nation, the political form that provides the indispensable framework for democratic self-government, Shelley thoughtfully illumines the place and limits of globalization in a democratic age. ...Daniel J. Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship, Assumption College"... "Many in the West today talk about the emergent unity of humanity, as social scientists examine the world through "global values," assessing "global opinion"; economists study the "global economy" and "global finance"; historians write of "universal history;" legal scholars speak of "global domestic politics" and "world society," while advocating "transnational justice"; political pundits announce the death of the nation-state. One could list additional examples illustrating the same apparent fact: a growing sense of global unity, and a universalist perspective on things social, economic, legal, historical, and political. It is not self-evident, however, whether this phenomenon - often referred to as "globalization" - is an extension of liberalism, or instead an accident following upon it. One may wonder whether all liberal thinkers embrace it, and whether opponents are necessarily anti-liberal thinkers? This book argues that if some thinkers are partisans of universalism, and certain others are partisans of particularism, there is nonetheless a moderate, middle, and liberal, perspective, as found in the works of Baron de Montesquieu, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Pierre Manent"...
Beschreibung:	Includes index
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 290 Seiten)
ISBN:	9780268107321