The Tragedy of Liberalism: An Alternative

A defense of liberalism, understood as a perfectionist doctrine that presupposes an ideal but controversial notion of human well-being.

Bert van den Brink is a Research Fellow on the Faculty of Law at Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Preface

1

(5)

Part 1: Liberalism, Pluralism, and Tragedy

5

(34)

Introduction

5

(4)

Liberalism and Moral Pluralism

9

(18)

Liberalism

9

(6)

Pluralism and how (not) to defend liberalism

15

(12)

The Tragedy of Liberalism

27

(12)

Two views of tragic liberalism

28

(4)

A working hypothesis

32

(7)

Part 2: Political Liberalism versus Liberal Perfectionism

39

(46)

Introduction

39

(2)

Political Liberalism: Justification through Public Reason

41

(22)

Political Liberalism

42

(7)

John Rawls

The two-stage path to an overlapping consensus: A critique

49

(14)

Liberal Perfectionism: Autonomy and Pluralism

63

(22)

Liberal perfectionism

63

(6)

Joseph Raz

The limits of perfectionism

69

(6)

Rephrasing some key concepts of liberal thought

75

(4)

Conclusions to Part 2

79

(6)

Part 3: Deliberative Democracy as a Way Out?

85

(42)

Introduction

85

(2)

Discourse Theory and Moral Character

87

(20)

Preliminary remarks on deliberative democracy

88

(2)

Theoretical foundations of public deliberation

90

(5)

Jurgen Habermas

Discourse ethics and the limits of formalism and proceduralism

95

(6)

Discourse ethics, moral character, and pluralism

101

(6)

Law, Democracy, and Deliberation

107

(20)

Law and deliberative democracy

108

(5)

The limits of deliberative democracy

113

(6)

Another revision of key concepts of liberal thought

119

(4)

Conclusions to Part 3

123

(4)

Part 4: Liberal Community, Mutual Recognition, and Citizenship Virtue

127

(54)

Introduction

127

(2)

Liberal Community and the Normative Potential of Tragic Conflicts

129

(16)

Christoph Menke's typology of tragic conflicts

129

(6)

Toward an understanding of liberal community

135

(10)

Struggles for Recognition and Tragic Conflicts

145

(18)

Axel Honneth's theory of recognition

146

(5)

Struggles for recognition and the tragedy of liberalism

151

(12)

Vulnerability and Responsibilities of Liberal Citizenship

163

(18)

Vulnerability and responsibility

163

(8)

Virtues of liberal citizenship

171

(4)

Conclusions to Part 4

175

(6)

Part 5: Liberalism and Multiculturalism

181

(44)

Introduction

181

(4)

Multiculturalism and Cultural Authenticity

185

(18)

How (not) to talk about multiculturalism

186

(6)

A liberal-communitarian perspective

192

(11)

Charles Taylor

Two Liberal Views of Multiculturalism

203

(22)

Jeremy Waldron's cosmopolitan alternative

204

(7)

Will Kymlicka's ``group-differentiated rights'' approach

211

(8)

Conclusions to Part 5

219

(6)

Notes

225

(28)

References

253

(8)

Index

261

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