Uncivil Society

Informationen zum Autor Richard Boyd is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Klappentext In Uncivil Society, Richard Boyd argues contrarily that contemporary political theorist and social scientists have unduly neglected the "uncivil" properties of groups. Through a careful reading of such exemplary figures as Hobbes, Locke, the Scottish Moralist, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Michael Oakeshott in the classical liberal tradition - and their defense of the virtue of civility - this work calls into question many contemporary assumptions about the nature and origins of civil society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Civic Associations and the Liberal Tradition 2 Chapter One: Thomas Hobbes and the Perils of Pluralism 3 Chapter Two: John Locke! Toleration! and Sectarianism 4 Chapter Three: Reappraising the Scottish Moralists and Civil Society 5 Chapter Four: Edmund Burke's Defense of Civil Society 6 Chapter Five: John Stuart Mill and the Modern Liberal Ambivalence to Groups 7 Chapter Six: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Perils of Pluralism Revisited 8 Chapter Seven: Michael Oakeshott and the Transformational (Im)possibilities of the Liberal State 9 Chapter Eight: F. A. Hayek and the Limits of Liberal Constitutionalism 10 Conclusion: Liberal Neutrality! Purposive Community! and the Logic of Contemporary Pluralism

Klappentext

In Uncivil Society, Richard Boyd argues contrarily that contemporary political theorist and social scientists have unduly neglected the "uncivil" properties of groups. Through a careful reading of such exemplary figures as Hobbes, Locke, the Scottish Moralist, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Michael Oakeshott in the classical liberal tradition - and their defense of the virtue of civility - this work calls into question many contemporary assumptions about the nature and origins of civil society.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Civic Associations and the Liberal Tradition 2 Chapter One: Thomas Hobbes and the Perils of Pluralism 3 Chapter Two: John Locke, Toleration, and Sectarianism 4 Chapter Three: Reappraising the Scottish Moralists and Civil Society 5 Chapter Four: Edmund Burke's Defense of Civil Society 6 Chapter Five: John Stuart Mill and the Modern Liberal Ambivalence to Groups 7 Chapter Six: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Perils of Pluralism Revisited 8 Chapter Seven: Michael Oakeshott and the Transformational (Im)possibilities of the Liberal State 9 Chapter Eight: F. A. Hayek and the Limits of Liberal Constitutionalism 10 Conclusion: Liberal Neutrality, Purposive Community, and the Logic of Contemporary Pluralism