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Contemporary theories of liberalism : public reason as a post-Enlightenment project

In this text, Gerald F. Gaus provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key tenets of liberalism developed through Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Rawls to present day theories and debates
eBook, English, 2003
SAGE, London, 2003
1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations
9781412932110, 9780761961383, 9780761961390, 9781446218754, 9781280369728, 9786610369720, 1412932114, 0761961380, 0761961399, 1446218759, 1280369728, 6610369720
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Cover
Summary of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Chapter 1
Liberalism and Reason
Chapter 2
Pluralistic Liberalism: Making Do Without Public Reason?
Chapter 3
Hobbesian-inspired Liberalism: Public Reason Out of Individual Reason
Chapter 4
Collective Reason: Deepening the Social Roots of Public Reason
Chapter 5
Deliberative Democracy: Public Reason and Political Consensus
Chapter 6
Political Democracy: Public Reason Through Aggregation
Chapter 7
Rawls's Political Liberalism: Public Reason as the Domain of the Political
Chapter 8
Justificatory Liberalism and Adjudicative Democracy: Public Reason and Umpiring
English