As one of liberal theory's most important gadflies, Richard Flathman has during the past four decades produced a significant body of work that is iconoclastic, idiosyncratic, and increasingly influential. Flathman criticizes liberal theory's role in justifying a politics of governance that has drifted substantially from liberalism's central commitments to individuality and freedom. It is this challenge, and its implications for the future of liberal theory, that brings together the diverse and distinguished authors of this volume. Topics include the relationships between theory and practice, skepticism and knowledge, individuality and egoism, negative and positive freedom, Hobbes and liberalism, as well as the uneasy connections among liberalism, feminism, and democratic politics.
- ISBN10 0816639698
- ISBN13 9780816639694
- Publish Date 7 August 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 January 2022
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 296
- Language English