What has become of liberalism in the 20th century? What happens to American individuals confronted by the corporation and its forms of social organization? Why does liberalism look less flexible and more rigid, less capable of experimentation than was originally expected? The surprising answers to these and other troubling questions are traced in this major reinterpretation of contemporary A…
In this short yet ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom, then d…
Dunia dewasa ini dipengaruhi oleh berbagai macam pandangan yang berbeda mengenai kehidupan. Setiap orang pasti pernah mendengar salah satu dari pandangan itu, tetapi bila dilihat atau kita mendengar istilah komunisme, demokrasi, atau nasionalisme, kita cenderung memberikan reaksi emosional. Pembahasan dalam buku ini meliputi Nasionalisme, Demokrasi, Komunisme, Anarkisme, Kiri Baru, Ideologi-ide…