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Title: The Liberalism of Fear
Author: Judith N. Shklar
Category: Political, History & Theory, Political Science, Democracy
Language: English | 304 str. Pages | ISBN: 9780674306646


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Available for the first time in a stand-alone volume, the classic essay that envisioned liberalism not as the triumphant endpoint of political progress, or even a cohesive ideology, but rather as a precarious guardrail against abuses of power.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many hailed the supposed triumph of liberal democracy as the "end of history." But Judith Shklar offered a sober and cautionary perspective. Far from an inevitable or permanent political order, liberalism was as fragile as it was essential: always threatened by the abusive political forces against which it offered imperfect but necessary defense. Shklar's vision of a bulwark in the face of cruelty, rather than a venerable ideology of freedom or individual autonomy, powerfully rejected conceptions of liberalism that were easy targets of critique from both left and right.
With its focus on the thin line dividing our political system from authoritarianism, The Liberalism of Fear is...