An Intellectual History of Liberalism: (New French Thought Series)

by PierreManent (Author), JerroldE.Seigel (Foreword), RebeccaBalinski (Foreword)

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $38.64

  Highlighting social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, this book draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. It argues that the frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic state to further social causes derives from the liberal stance that political life does not serve a higher purpose.