Liberals and Cannibals: The Implications of Diversity
Lukes, Steven
| Publication Date |
2003 |
| ISBN |
1859845959 |
| Publisher |
Verso2003 |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Near fine, bright copy in like dust wrapper |
| SKU |
17763 |
| Notes |
Very clean and neat in like dust wrapper. |
Description
Hardback. 180pp. Taking as his starting point Robert Frost's accusation that a liberal is someone who can't take his own side in an argument, Steven Lukes confronts liberal thought with its own limitations. The essays in this collection focus on the perennial but newly urgent questions of how the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics can be resolved within the framework of liberalism. How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from the widely condemned relativism? Drawning on the work of Isaiah Berlin amongst others.
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