Liberalism Defended: The Challenge of Post-Modernity

by Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

Liberalism is today under serious intellectual attack. It is said to undermine its own principles, to have lost any strong claims to universal validity, and to foster injustice and inhumanity. Liberalism is associated with Enlightenment thought and is considered by some as an outmoded political philosophy. Professors Rasmussen and Den Uyl take up this challenge to liberalism. They show that liberalism is not locked into traditional ways of understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1858985579
• ISBN13: 9781858985572
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 112 Pages