Update Liberalism
Liberal Answers to the Challenges of Our Time
1st Edition
Published on 2. October 2023
162 pages
978-3-8394-6995-8 (ISBN)
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Liberal democracy is under pressure worldwide. It is challenged by anti-liberal movements and parties as well as by authoritarian regimes. Liberalism as a cross-party movement and a broad way of thinking has fallen into the defensive and is often associated with market radicalism, social coldness, and ecological ignorance. The contributors show that liberalism as a school of thought is not dead. In their essays, they present ideas and approaches for new liberal concepts to cope with the great challenges of our time: from climate change, globalization, and the digital revolution to transnational migration and the increasing systemic competition between democracies and authoritarian regimes.
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Ralf Fücks, Zentrum Liberale Moderne, Deutschland
Ralf Fücks ist einer der Gründer und Direktor des Zentrums Liberale Moderne in Berlin, einem Think-Tank und Diskussionsforum zur Erneuerung der liberalen Demokratie. Zuvor war er 21 Jahre lang Vorstand der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung und Senator in Bremen. Er publiziert in deutschen und internationalen Medien zu Fragen ökologischer Transformation, politischer Strategie und internationaler Politik.
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Rainald Manthe, Deutschland
Rainald Manthe, geb. 1987, ist Soziologe und Autor. Er war Direktor des Programms »Liberale Demokratie« beim Think-Tank »Zentrum Liberale Moderne«. Rainald Manthe hat über transnationale Treffen sozialer Bewegungen - die Weltsozialforen - promoviert und schreibt regelmäßig zu Fragen der Demokratieentwicklung.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Update Liberalism. An Introduction
- Liberal democracy is under threat
- Challenges of the 2020s
- Liberalism under attack
- What is the aim of this book?
- The texts
- I Contemporary liberalism of the 21st century
- II Liberal answers to the challenges of our time
- Acknowledgements
- I Contemporary Liberalism of the 21st Century
- Democracy without Freedom
- Are totalitarian systems doomed to fail?
- Dispute for liberal tolerance
- Globalisation and Democratic Regression
- Globalisation has also brought forth the new opponents of liberal democracy
- Rapid change has strengthened the opponents of liberal democracy
- Authoritarian populism is widespread globally
- People no longer feel noticed in a democracy
- A new brand of liberalism must first and foremost reconcile
- The Revenge of Emotions
- Is politics the domain of reason or passion?
- Democracy and a sense of loss
- Empathy, belonging, and pluralism
- Emotions and Covid-19 pandemic
- Poison Cupboard or Treasure Chest? Why each Generation Needs its own Neoliberalism
- The laborious unravelling of a confusion of terms
- The history of liberalism as a succession of forms of neoliberalism
- Why we need a new neoliberalism today
- Do We Need a New Liberalism of Fear?
- The lib er al ism of fear
- A lib er al ism of damage control
- Making the case for the morality of liberal orders
- Living in fear makes us unfree
- The fear of human redundancy
- "Move Forward to the Back": The Illiberal Turn in East-Central Europe
- The illiberal regression affects institutions and procedures of liberal democracy
- »The dog that did not bark«
- Five hypotheses for the illiberal backlash
- The limits of illiberalism
- Liberalism beyond Individualism and Capitalism
- Liberalism in changing coalitions
- The free individual and the free political community
- Political implications of changed conditions of freedom
- Freedom and Justice in a Double Pack: A Short Journey through the Liberal Intellectual History of Justice
- Hayek and social justice
- Procedures vs. market results
- The non-aggression axiom
- Rawls' Theory of Justice
- Ecology and Freedom
- Ecological calvinism vs. the green industrial revolution
- Democracy is not negotiable
- Decoupling prosperity and environmental degradation
- II Liberal Answers to the Challenges of our Time
- On the Critical Infrastructure of Liberal Democracy
- Effective use of fundamental political freedoms
- Productive - and unproductive - conflicts in democracy
- Competition, rights, transparency - is that enough?
- Democratic digital infrastructure - part of the solution?
- Freedom in Times of the Pandemic
- The virus is a challenge to liberal democracy
- Vaccination is morally imperative
- Free-riders cannot invoke freedom
- Freedom takes place within the framework of a community
- We need solidarity and tolerance
- Liberalism versus Right-Wing Populism
- Right-wing populism is about the freedom of the collective
- Liberalism must oppose right-wing populism
- Threats to freedom
- Freedom or full protection
- Ownership for All! From Class Society to Property Society
- Societies need security in times of change
- Property and the common good
- Skewed wealth distribution
- Distributive justice is what counts
- Encourage capital formation
- Liberal Democracies versus Totalitarian Autocracies: European Responses to the Systemic Conflict
- The systemic conflict is complex
- Liberal democracies are no longer seen as having no alternative
- Responding to new challenges
- Europe as a liberal project
- The threat to European liberalism
- A European agenda for the future
- Global Migration and Cohesion of Diverse Societies
- Migration and the debate about migration are not the same
- Acceptance of diversity increases
- Germany is increasingly becoming a modern immigration country
- Smart Market Design for Sustainable Infrastructures
- The design of the competition
- Energy: Creating markets for security of supply
- Telecommunications: Vouchers and tenders for "white spots"
- Fixed network
- Mobile network
- Rail: Using the Deutschlandtakt to boost competition
- Market or state: An outdated dichotomy
- The Future of Free Trade
- Free trade under fire
- The advantage of open markets is also evident during the covid pandemic
- Covid does not challenge the global economy based on division of labour
- The state should support through free trade agreements
- I Tweet, therefore I am? For a New Ethics of Digitalisation
- Digitisation changes the world as we know it
- Shaping digitisation
- Liberty Politics as Democracy Politics
- Self-criticism opens up new paths
- Freedom policy between paralysis and emancipation
- Freedom policy as democracy policy
- Outlook: Liberal democracy as a learning democracy
- A Civil Right to Further Education
- Societies need security in times of change
- The world of work is changing
- A civil right to further education
- Higher tax revenues would partially refinance basic education income
- Everyone should be able to take their life into their own hands
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