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A convincing and deeply believed exploration and defense of liberalism: what it really is, why it is pertinent today, and how it can benefit our society graph a frontward course.
The Future of Liberalism symbolizes the culmination of four decades of thinking and authoring contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of America’s leading scholars, hailed by one critic as “one of liberalism’s previous and most faithful sons.” Wolfe mines the bedrock of the liberal tradition, describing how Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, and other famous minds helped shape liberalism’s central philosophy. Wolfe also examines those who have challenged liberalism since its inception, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to modern conservatives, spiritual fundamentalists, and evolutionary theorists such as Richard Dawkins.
Pulling on both the motivation and insights of seminal works such as John Locke’s Second Treatise on Federal government, Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments, Kant’s essay “What's Enlightenment?,” and Mill’s On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Wolfe ambitiously models out to specify what it truly methods to be considered a liberal. He analyzes and applauds liberalism’s capacious conception of individual nature, belief that individuals outweigh ideology, enthusiasm for social justice, trust in reason and intellectual openness, and esteem for individualism. And we observe how the liberal tradition can affect and illuminate contemporary debates on immigration, abortion, professional power, religious liberty, and free conversation.
But Wolfe also makes it clear that before liberalism can be effectively put on today’s problems, it requires to be retrieved, grasped, and embraced—not only by People in america but by all modern people—as the most beneficial way to reside in our complicated modern world. The Future of Liberalism is an essential, enlightening, and greatly rewarding part of that direction.
