1st Edition
Individualism and the Social Order The Social Element in Liberal Thought
By Charles McCann
Copyright 2004
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society. This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the political and social thought of leading liberal social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries including John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer and Friedrich A.... Read more
Introduction 1. Forms of Community 2. Mill and Libertarian Liberalism 3. Stephen and Conservative Liberalism 4. Spencer and the Evolution of Moral Society 5. Sumner: Tradition and Custome in the Social Order 6. Mises and the Triumph of Libertarian Ideas 7. Hayek and the Form of the Liberak Community Conclusion
Biography
Charles R. McCann is Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. He has produced an interesting work that mixes communitarianism and economics and will surprise and intrigue in equal measure. Students and academics involved in the history of economic thought, philosophy and libertarianism will find this book to be a useful addition to their reading list.
