This book examines some of the central intellectual assumptions of liberalism and offers a critique of selected examples of its political practice. In including an international and multidisciplinary range of articles with a common philosophical theme, it seeks to raise questions about the development of liberalism in 'post-communist' Europe. It will thus be of interest to political and moral philosophers; political and social scientists; and those interested in current sociological and political developments in central and eastern Europe. Among the issues discussed are the bases of liberalism's conceptions of rationality and the individual; its relations with feminism and democracy; its claim to political victory, as viewed from the UK and the Czech Republic; its understanding of welfare, the environment and the economy; and some examples of its allegedly non-ideological neutrality, in relation to British higher education, the Czech civil service and the place of women in Lithuanian society.
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Contents: Introduction; The shortcomings of liberal rationality: a Kantian suggestion; The liberal individual; From liberal democracy to democratic liberalism; Are we facing the triumph of liberalism and the end of history?; 'They are not tigers' - myth and myopia in the quest for a liberal economic order; The poverty of affluence? the consumer society, its discontents and its malcontents; Liberalism and welfare: the limits of compensation; Can liberals be feminists?; Liberalism on the bolshevik model: the status of women in Lithuania; Liberalism, Europe and the environment; Maoist liberalism? higher education in contemporary Britain; Liberalism after communism: the Czech civil service.
