Beyond Extensions of Liberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12923196 |
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| Authors | Donald Beggs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 157-166 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-0882 • E-ISSN: 1755-1722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3366/e1755088208000141 |
| OpenAlex | W1564696558 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Not only does a shared expertise in classical philosophy and literature inform the works of Martha Nussbaum and Bernard Williams, each has also written and spoken on contemporary social and political issues. Given such ranges of reference, it is not surprising that their two recent books, Frontiers of Justice, a treatise, and In the Beginning Was the Deed, selected essays, confidently take up fundamental political questions. Yet these books differ in their intentions, organising structures, and discursive strategies, and they have little overlap in topics. What then may be hoped from their juxtaposition? That their moral-political perspectives are strongly anti-utilitarian, somewhat anti-Kantian, and self-professedly liberal are unpromising commonplaces. Their juxtaposition can point, I think, toward an alternative to liberalism that is not anti-liberal. Williams considered himself a ‘critical liberal’ (a ‘left Wittgensteinian’). But among his contributions to ‘processes of extension’ (60) of liberalism i
Classical liberalism · Deed · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Extension (predicate logic · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
| Highly cited | No |
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