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Uncivil society : the perils of pluralism and the making of modern liberalism / Richard Boyd

Author
Boyd, Richard, 1970-
Published
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
xiv, 351 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents
Thomas Hobbes and the perils of pluralism -- John Locke, toleration, and sectarianism -- Reappraising the Scottish moralists and civil society -- Edmund Burke's defense of civil society -- John Stuart Mill and the ambivalence of liberal pluralism -- Alexis de Tocqueville and the perils of pluralism revisited -- Michael Oakeshott and the transformational (im)possibilities of the liberal state -- F. A. Hayek and the limits of liberal constitutionalism -- Conclusion: Liberal neutrality, purposive community, and the logic of contemporary pluralism.
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ISBN
0739109081 (cloth : alk. paper)
073910909X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-342) and index.
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