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Individualism and the Social Order Charles McCann (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Individualism and the Social Order By Charles McCann (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Individualism and the Social Order by Charles McCann (University of Pittsburgh, USA)


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This book provides readers with a thorough treatment of liberal doctrine, both in its political theory and economic policy dimensions.

Individualism and the Social Order Summary

Individualism and the Social Order: The Social Element in Liberal Thought by Charles McCann (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

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. von Hayek. While differing as to the nature of man and society, each thinker examined holds the basic premise that man is not an isolated creature whose life is 'nasty, brutish and short' but rather that his motivations are dependent upon his place in a social order.

About Charles McCann (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

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.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NPB9780415326278
9780415326278
0415326273
Individualism and the Social Order: The Social Element in Liberal Thought by Charles McCann (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2004-01-15
248
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