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The Meaning of Liberalism - East and West Jiri Musil (Professor of Sociology, Charles University, Prague Central European University)

The Meaning of Liberalism - East and West By Jiri Musil (Professor of Sociology, Charles University, Prague Central European University)

The Meaning of Liberalism - East and West by Jiri Musil (Professor of Sociology, Charles University, Prague Central European University)

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This text provides a perspective on the continuing debate about how liberalism should be defined and what it means in countries with an established parliamentary system, particularly in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe.

The Meaning of Liberalism - East and West Summary

The Meaning of Liberalism - East and West by Jiri Musil (Professor of Sociology, Charles University, Prague Central European University)

Provides a new perspective on the continuing debate about how liberalism should be defined and what it means incountries with an established parliamentary system, particularly in the democricies of Central and Eastern Europe.

About Jiri Musil (Professor of Sociology, Charles University, Prague Central European University)

Jiri Musil is Professor of Sociology at the Central European University in Budapest and Warsaw and at Charles University in Prague. He was the first Academic Director of the Prague College of CEU. He is a member of the Academia Europea and Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea and a founding member of the Czech Learned Society. His main professional fields are urban and regional sociology and sociology of culture. Zdenek Suda is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing mainly in branches of political sociology with focus on Central and Eastern Europe, and the sociology of work and of education. He also devoted considerable attention to the problems of modernization and globalization.

Table of Contents

Foreword. Introduction. Part 1 Contemporary state of liberal theory: Citizenship & moral individuality; liberal values; liberal guilt & the disaster for politics; liberalism, value & social cohesion; value of liberalism. Part 2 Liberalism in the West: Limits & the crisis of liberal politics; social & cultural problems in contemporary Europe; two dilemmas of liberalism; above all we must protect the civil roof; German difficulties with liberalism. Part 3 Liberalism in the East: Can weak-state liberalism survive?; neoliberalism, post-communist transformation & civil society; law, traditionalism & liberalism in practice; constitutional transformation in post-communist Central Europe. Part 4 Difficult fate of liberalism in Eastern and Central Europe: Burdens of the past; liberalism in Central Europe after 1989.

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The Meaning of Liberalism - East and West by Jiri Musil (Professor of Sociology, Charles University, Prague Central European University)
Jiri Musil (Professor of Sociology, Charles University, Prague Central European University)
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