The Growth of the Liberal Soul
- ISBN-10
- 0826210821
- ISBN-13
- 9780826210821
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 386
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Author
- David Walsh
Description
The widespread abandonment of the search for foundations by John Rawls, Richard Rorty, Michael Oakeshott, and the deconstructionists has been interpreted as signifying the absence of any sustaining inner resources. The result has been the confusion of contemporary liberal democratic self-understanding, which cannot make sense of its own extraordinary historical success nor apparently prevent the evident unraveling of its own moral code.
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