Uncivil Society : The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism

Name: Uncivil Society
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9780739109090
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ISBN: 9780739109090

by Richard Boyd

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Format 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 532 grams

Dimensions 15.20 x 22.90 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Constitution: government & the state Constitution: government and the state Civics and citizenship Civil 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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