Liberal Equality
- Author: Amy Gutmann, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: December 1980
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521296656
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This book makes a significant contribution to the tradition of liberal political theory: it explores the foundations and limits of the idea of equality within that theory and offers a sustained argument for a persuasive new view of liberalism. Liberal thinking has always displayed a tension between the claims of liberty and those of equality. Professor Gutmann examines the contributions of liberal theorists from Locke to Rawls on the subject of two kinds of equality - equality of opportunity to participate and the equal distribution of economic goods. Valuing both, she shows that, far from being alternatives, the two ideals are compatible to a much greater degree than has previously been thought. Liberal Equality restores egalitarianism to political theory in a way that will forcefully challenge its critics to deeper reflection.
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- Date Published: December 1980
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521296656
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: equality, liberty and liberal theory
1. The classical liberal foundations
2. J. S. Mill and participatory opportunity
3. The Fabians and their allies: the minimal welfare state and beyond
4. The relevant reasons for liberal egalitarianism
5. John Rawls and distributive equality
6. Contemporary critics of liberal egalitarianism: left and right
7. Participatory and distributive equality reintegrated
Conclusion: the limits of liberal egalitarian politics
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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