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Not thinking like a liberal/ Raymond Geuss

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dc.contributor.author Geuss Raymond
dc.date.accessioned 2024-01-29T23:13:35Z
dc.date.available 2024-01-29T23:13:35Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.citation Geuss. Not thinking like a liberal - 1 online resource (xv, 197 pages) - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/3155166.pdf
dc.identifier.isbn 9780674276543
dc.identifier.isbn 067427654X
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/181940
dc.description Includes bibliographical references and index
dc.description.abstract In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world's most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism. Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive that for most people in the West it is background noise, the natural state of affairs. But there are nooks and crannies in every society where the prevailing winds don't blow. Raymond Geuss grew up some distance from the cultural mainstream and recounts here the unusual perspective he absorbed: one in which liberal capitalism was synonymous with moral emptiness and political complacency. Not Thinking like a Liberal is a concise tour of diverse intellectual currents--from the Counter-Reformation and communism to pragmatism and critical theory--that shaped Geuss's skeptical stance toward liberalism. The bright young son of a deeply Catholic steelworker, Geuss was admitted in 1959 to an unusual boarding school on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Outside was Eisenhower's America. Inside Geuss was schooled by Hungarian priests who tried to immunize students against the twin dangers of oppressive communism and vapid liberal capitalism. From there Geuss went on to university in New York in the early days of the Vietnam War and to West Germany, where critical theory was experiencing a major revival. This is not a repeatable journey. In tracing it, Geuss reminds us of the futility of abstracting lessons from context and of seeking a universal view from nowhere. At the same time, he examines the rise and fall of major political theories of the past sixty years. An incisive thinker attuned to both the history and the future of ideas, Geuss looks beyond the horrors of authoritarianism and the shallow freedom of liberalism to glimpse a world of genuinely new possibilities
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en
dc.subject.other Wolff -- Robert Paul
dc.subject.other Morgenbesser -- 1921-2004. -- Sidney
dc.subject.other Cumming -- 1916-2004. -- Robert Denoon
dc.subject.other Morgenbesser -- 1921-2004 -- Sidney
dc.subject.other Wolff -- Robert Paul
dc.subject.other Liberalism.
dc.subject.other Authoritarianism.
dc.subject.other Political science -- Philosophy.
dc.subject.other Authoritarianism
dc.subject.other Libéralisme.
dc.subject.other Autoritarisme.
dc.subject.other liberalism.
dc.subject.other PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
dc.subject.other Authoritarianism
dc.subject.other Liberalism
dc.subject.other Political science -- Philosophy
dc.subject.other Electronic books
dc.title Not thinking like a liberal/ Raymond Geuss
dc.type Book
dc.description.pages 1 online resource (xv, 197 pages)
dc.collection Электронно-библиотечные системы
dc.source.id EN05CEBSCO05C380308


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