Raymond Plant
Biographic Data
| ID | 244778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Plant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Plant |
| SIGNATURE | PLANT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to Roy Hattersley and Kevin Hickson
Religion, Identity and Freedom of Expression
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals): Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions
This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the …
The Neo-liberal State
This book has two central aims. The first is to give a fair, comprehensive, and analytical account of the central features of the neo‐liberal view about the role and limits of the state in the modern world. It considers important ideas such as the contrast between a state based on rules and the one based on outcomes, the implications of this contrast for the rule of law, for the ideas of freedom, social justice, and rights. It provides a full acc…
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions
Neo‐liberalism and the Theory of the State: From Wohlfahrtsstaat to Rechtsstaat
Citizenship and Social Security
The aim of this paper is to elucidate the idea of citizenship that lies behind the Labour government's welfare reforms. There has been no proper statement about this from the government, so the paper is an attempt to make explicit what is latent in the reforms. It does this partly historically by looking at ideas of citizenship that have been presupposed in the development of the British Welfare State. It is claimed that there are two rather diff…
Liberal Government, Civil Society and Faith Communities
This article explores the relationship between faith communities and the liberal system of government which operates in contemporary Britain. The problem addressed is as follows: liberal democracy relies upon the assumption of the validity of certain general truths: human rights, social justice, individual autonomy, and so on. In our postmodern society, however, social fragmentation has eroded the validity of such assumptions, leaving no universa…
Politics, Theology and History
Politics, Theology and History, first published in 2001, is a major book by a prominent academic and an active politician. It ranges widely across the disciplines of theology, political theory and philosophy and poses acute questions about the basic moral foundations of liberal societies. Lord Plant focuses on the role that religious belief can and ought to play in argument about public policy in a pluralistic society. He examines the potential p…
The Politics of Postmodernity
In his study Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman contrasts the hopes and expectations of the modernising world of the nineteenth century with the real outcomes of the twentieth century, where the very conditions of modernity have led to the mass destruction of humanity and of those early hopes for the betterment of humankind. This volume explores the possibilities left to those once modernising societies, not only in terms of the worlds t…
The plant report: A retrospective
Raymond Plant, who chaired the Labour Party's Working Party on Electoral Systems, reviews the findings of the Committee and considers the likelihood of its recommendations being implemented under Labour's new political leadership
Political theory without foundations
Criteria for Electoral Systems: The Labour Party and Electoral Reform
Journal Article CRITERIA FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS: THE LABOUR PARTY AND ELECTORAL REFORM Get access Raymond Plant Raymond Plant Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 1991, Pages 549–557, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052325 Published: 01 October 1991
Thomas More and his Circle, Kalamazoo, 1987-1988
Thomas More and his Circle Kalamazoo, 1986
Recent Work on Hegel
Journal Article Recent Work on Hegel Get access An Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel. By Errol E. Harris (London: University Press of America, 1983. Pp. xiii + 346. Price £23.50)Hegel’s Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801–1806). By H. S. Harris (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. LXX + 627. Price £35.00)Hegel. By M. J. Inwood (London: RKP, 1983. Pp. xv + 582. Price £24.00)Hegel’s Concept of God. By S.J. Quentin Lauer (Albany: SUNY, 1982. Pp…
Welfare and the Value of Liberty
THE IDEA OF THE WELFARE STATE IS CURRENTLY TREATED with more scepticism across the political spectrum than at any time during its development. Insofar as the institutions of the welfare state were consolidated during the period of Butskellite consensus which lasted until the late 1960s, in the more polarized political climate of today it is now seen on both the Right and the Left to embody many of the failures implicit in that consensus. It was a…
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provision
Jürgen Habermas and the Idea of Legitimation Crisis
This paper explores one aspect of the recent work of Jürgen Habermas on Legitimation Crisis. It focuses attention on Habermas's claim that the pre‐capitalist moral values on which capitalism has hitherto relied have become progressively displaced by the growth of the capitalist economy. This has produced central problems for the state management of the economy, in the absence of an established internalized set of values which could act both as re…
Community: Concept, Conception, and Ideology
Hegel and Political Economy (Part II)
Labour is a central notion in the works of Smith and Ricardo, and it is an elaboration of the concept of labour which enables Hegel to say something about human development and human autonomy which goes beyond what is to be found in conventional political economy. The main
Hegel and Political Economy (Part I)
In The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx, Ernest Mandel writes: ‘Hegel had been profoundly affected in his youth by economic studies, in particular by the work of Adam Smith; Marx saw the Hegelian system as a veritable philosophy of labour.’ He goes on to quote
Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao
Community: Concept, Conception, and Ideology
Jürgen Habermas and the Idea of Legitimation Crisis
This paper explores one aspect of the recent work of Jürgen Habermas on Legitimation Crisis. It focuses attention on Habermas's claim that the pre‐capitalist moral values on which capitalism has hitherto relied have become progressively displaced by the growth of the capitalist economy. This has produced central problems for the state management of the economy, in the absence of an established internalized set of values which could act both as re…
Neo‐liberalism and the Theory of the State: From Wohlfahrtsstaat to Rechtsstaat
Welfare and the Value of Liberty
THE IDEA OF THE WELFARE STATE IS CURRENTLY TREATED with more scepticism across the political spectrum than at any time during its development. Insofar as the institutions of the welfare state were consolidated during the period of Butskellite consensus which lasted until the late 1960s, in the more polarized political climate of today it is now seen on both the Right and the Left to embody many of the failures implicit in that consensus. It was a…
Hegel and Political Economy (Part I)
In The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx, Ernest Mandel writes: ‘Hegel had been profoundly affected in his youth by economic studies, in particular by the work of Adam Smith; Marx saw the Hegelian system as a veritable philosophy of labour.’ He goes on to quote
Response to Roy Hattersley and Kevin Hickson
The plant report: A retrospective
Raymond Plant, who chaired the Labour Party's Working Party on Electoral Systems, reviews the findings of the Committee and considers the likelihood of its recommendations being implemented under Labour's new political leadership
Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao
Hegel and Political Economy (Part II)
Labour is a central notion in the works of Smith and Ricardo, and it is an elaboration of the concept of labour which enables Hegel to say something about human development and human autonomy which goes beyond what is to be found in conventional political economy. The main
Hegel and Political Economy (Part I)
In The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx, Ernest Mandel writes: ‘Hegel had been profoundly affected in his youth by economic studies, in particular by the work of Adam Smith; Marx saw the Hegelian system as a veritable philosophy of labour.’ He goes on to quote
Community: Concept, Conception, and Ideology
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provision
Jürgen Habermas and the Idea of Legitimation Crisis
This paper explores one aspect of the recent work of Jürgen Habermas on Legitimation Crisis. It focuses attention on Habermas's claim that the pre‐capitalist moral values on which capitalism has hitherto relied have become progressively displaced by the growth of the capitalist economy. This has produced central problems for the state management of the economy, in the absence of an established internalized set of values which could act both as re…
Recent Work on Hegel
Journal Article Recent Work on Hegel Get access An Interpretation of the Logic of Hegel. By Errol E. Harris (London: University Press of America, 1983. Pp. xiii + 346. Price £23.50)Hegel’s Development: Night Thoughts (Jena 1801–1806). By H. S. Harris (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983. Pp. LXX + 627. Price £35.00)Hegel. By M. J. Inwood (London: RKP, 1983. Pp. xv + 582. Price £24.00)Hegel’s Concept of God. By S.J. Quentin Lauer (Albany: SUNY, 1982. Pp…
Welfare and the Value of Liberty
THE IDEA OF THE WELFARE STATE IS CURRENTLY TREATED with more scepticism across the political spectrum than at any time during its development. Insofar as the institutions of the welfare state were consolidated during the period of Butskellite consensus which lasted until the late 1960s, in the more polarized political climate of today it is now seen on both the Right and the Left to embody many of the failures implicit in that consensus. It was a…
Thomas More and his Circle Kalamazoo, 1986
Thomas More and his Circle, Kalamazoo, 1987-1988
Criteria for Electoral Systems: The Labour Party and Electoral Reform
Journal Article CRITERIA FOR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS: THE LABOUR PARTY AND ELECTORAL REFORM Get access Raymond Plant Raymond Plant Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 44, Issue 4, October 1991, Pages 549–557, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a052325 Published: 01 October 1991
Political theory without foundations
The plant report: A retrospective
Raymond Plant, who chaired the Labour Party's Working Party on Electoral Systems, reviews the findings of the Committee and considers the likelihood of its recommendations being implemented under Labour's new political leadership
The Politics of Postmodernity
In his study Modernity and the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman contrasts the hopes and expectations of the modernising world of the nineteenth century with the real outcomes of the twentieth century, where the very conditions of modernity have led to the mass destruction of humanity and of those early hopes for the betterment of humankind. This volume explores the possibilities left to those once modernising societies, not only in terms of the worlds t…
Politics, Theology and History
Politics, Theology and History, first published in 2001, is a major book by a prominent academic and an active politician. It ranges widely across the disciplines of theology, political theory and philosophy and poses acute questions about the basic moral foundations of liberal societies. Lord Plant focuses on the role that religious belief can and ought to play in argument about public policy in a pluralistic society. He examines the potential p…
Citizenship and Social Security
The aim of this paper is to elucidate the idea of citizenship that lies behind the Labour government's welfare reforms. There has been no proper statement about this from the government, so the paper is an attempt to make explicit what is latent in the reforms. It does this partly historically by looking at ideas of citizenship that have been presupposed in the development of the British Welfare State. It is claimed that there are two rather diff…
Liberal Government, Civil Society and Faith Communities
This article explores the relationship between faith communities and the liberal system of government which operates in contemporary Britain. The problem addressed is as follows: liberal democracy relies upon the assumption of the validity of certain general truths: human rights, social justice, individual autonomy, and so on. In our postmodern society, however, social fragmentation has eroded the validity of such assumptions, leaving no universa…
Neo‐liberalism and the Theory of the State: From Wohlfahrtsstaat to Rechtsstaat
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals): Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions
This re-issued work, first published in 1980, represents a work of normative political philosophy which argues positively for the centrality of the obligation to meet the various demands of social need in our society, and will be of particular interest to students of politics, philosophy, social politics and administration. Bringing the insights of analytical Political Philosophy to bear on the issues of social welfare and welfare provision, the …
The Neo-liberal State
This book has two central aims. The first is to give a fair, comprehensive, and analytical account of the central features of the neo‐liberal view about the role and limits of the state in the modern world. It considers important ideas such as the contrast between a state based on rules and the one based on outcomes, the implications of this contrast for the rule of law, for the ideas of freedom, social justice, and rights. It provides a full acc…
Political Philosophy and Social Welfare: Essays on the Normative Basis of Welfare Provisions
Religion, Identity and Freedom of Expression
Response to Roy Hattersley and Kevin Hickson
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