The Meaning of Liberalism: East and West

The key question this book addresses is: will the specific experience of communism and its aftermath give birth to a new distinct current of liberal thought, or will it simply enlarge the scope of the Western liberal debate? The authors argue that liberalism cannot be reduced merely to private property and market prices, but needs a very complex set of institutions and corresponding law.

Contributors come from both sides of the former Iron Curtain and they highlight the richness and diversity of liberalism and discuss different perceptions of liberal thinking in the East and West in the post-modern world.

Zdenek Suda is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh Jiri Musil is Professor of Sociology at the Central European University in Budapest and Warsaw and at Charles University in Prague

Foreword

vii

By Way of Introduction

1

(28)

Zdenek Suda

The Contemporary State of Liberal Theory

Citizenship and Moral Individuality

29

(18)

Catherine Audard

Liberal Values, Liberal Guilt, and the Distaste for Politics

47

(26)

John Crowley

Liberalism, Value, and Social Cohesion

73

(12)

Robert Grant

The Value of Liberalism

85

(20)

Sandra Pralong

Communitarianism in Practice: The Threat to Individual Rights from the Institutionalist Interpretation of the German Basic Law

105

(14)

Thomas Scheffer

Liberalism in the West

The Limits and the Crisis of Liberal Polities

119

(4)

Marion Grafin Donhoff

Social and Cultural Problems in Contemporary Europe: On Recent Challenges to Liberal Ideas

123

(16)

Karl Acham

Two Dilemmas of Liberalism: Historical Exhaustion and Internal Division in a World of Globalization

139

(12)

Michel Girard

German Difficulties with Liberalism. A Historical Outline

151

(16)

Bedrich Lowenstein

Liberalism in the East

The Burdens of the Past

167

(30)

Jiri Musil

Liberalism in Central Europe after 1989

197

(12)

Zdenek Suda

Can Weak-State Liberalism Survive?

209

(14)

Stephen Holmes

Neo-Liberalism, Post-Communist Transformation, and Civil Society

223

(12)

Ilja Srubar

Constitutional Transformation in Post-Communist Central Europe: A Liberal Revolution?

235

(14)

Allison Stanger

Law, Tradition and Liberalism in Practice: Quo Vadis, East Central Europe?

249

(16)

Svetozar Pejovich

Contributors

265

(4)

Name Index

269

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The Meaning of Liberalism: East and West

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