1st Edition
Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education
Part One: The Poverty of Liberalism Restated
Chapter One: Liberalism and the Enlightenment: The Metaphysic of Reason
Chapter Two: Reason, Autonomy and Morality
Chapter Three: The Alternative Conception of Anti-Rationalism: David Hume and Friedrich Hayek.
Chapter Four: The Thin Community: Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Quentin Skinner and James Tully.
Part Two: Towards the ‘Thin’ Community.
Chapter Five: Thinking the Subject of Democracy
Chapter Six: Democracy and the Good: Foucault and Power Relations
Chapter Seven: Reasonable Equality
Chapter Eight: Nietzsche and the Charge of Elitism
Chapter Nine: The Common Good and Liberal Detractors.
Chapter Ten: Nussbaum and Foucault on Historicism, Relativism and the Good.
Chapter Eleven: Freedom and the Foucauldian world.
Chapter Twelve: Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Mark Olssen is Professor of Political Theory and Education at the University of Surrey. He is the author of Michel Foucault: Materialism and Education; co-author of Education Policy: Globalization, Citizenship, Democracy; and co-editor of Futures of Critical Theory.
