Uncivil Society : The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism
by
Richard Boyd
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Applications of Political Theory
ISBN-10
073910909X
ISBN-13
9780739109090
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 18th, 2004
Print length
332 Pages
Weight
549 grams
Dimensions
22.80 x 17.50 x 2.80 cms
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Constitution: government & the stateCivil rights & citizenship
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The animosity of classical liberalism towards groups and associations, termed by Boyd (political science, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) "the perils of pluralism," was a fundamental factor in the shaping of the institutional and intellectual form of Anglo-American liberalism, he argues.
Civil society is one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary political theory. These debates often assume that a vibrant associational life between individual and state is essential for maintaining liberal democratic institutions. In Uncivil Society, Richard Boyd argues-through a careful reading of such seminal figures as Hobbes, Locke, Burke, Mill, Tocqueville, and Oakeshott-that contemporary theorists have not only tended to ignore the question of which sorts of groups ought to count as Ocivil societyO but they have also unduly discounted the ambivalence of violent and illiberal groups in a liberal democracy. Boyd seeks to correct this conceptual confusion by offering us a better moral taxonomy of the virtue of civility.
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