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Author Gaus, Gerald F.

Title Contemporary theories of liberalism : public reason as a post-enlightenment project / Gerald F. Gaus
Published London, England : Sage Publications, 2003

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 W'PONDS  320.01 Gau/Cto  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Series Sage politics texts
Sage politics texts.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Liberalism and Reason -- Pluralistic Liberalism -- Making Do without Public Reason? -- Hobbesian-Inspired Liberalism -- Public Reason out of Individual Reason -- Collective Reason -- Deeping the Social Roots of Public Reason -- Deliberative Democracy -- Public Reason and Political Consensus -- Political Democracy -- Public Reason through Aggregation -- Rawls's Political Liberalism -- Public Reason as the Domain of the Political -- Justificatory Liberalism and Adjudicative Democracy -- Public Reason and Umpiring
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Democracy.
Political science.
Representative government and representation.
Liberalism.
LC no. 2002112354
ISBN 0761961380 hardback
0761961399 paperback