How Long to Read Rethinking Liberalism

How Long Does it Take to Read Rethinking Liberalism?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read Rethinking Liberalism by Richard Bellamy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J. S. Mill, through T. H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the pluralism and complexity of modern societies have undermined liberalism's communitarian and ethical assumptions. Studies of the Poll Tax fiasco in Britain, and of the constitutional dilemmas posed by the European Union confirm the contemporary inadequacies of traditional conceptions of liberal democracy. Drawing on Max Weber, Bellamy advocates a return to a Machiavellian approach to politics to resolve the clashes resulting from competing values within complex situations. Unlike Weber however, he concentrates on the republican and democratic aspects of Machiavelli's thought. He proposes a republican strategy whereby the political dispersal of power constrains any ideal or interest from dominating another. Instead, everyone must seek mutually acceptable compromises. The essays in Rethinking Liberalism map a passage from the liberal democratic norms and forms characteristic of 19th-century nation states, to an agnostic, democratic liberal politics suitable for the transnational and plural societies of the new millennium.

How long is Rethinking Liberalism?

Rethinking Liberalism by Richard Bellamy is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rethinking Liberalism Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Rethinking Liberalism aloud.

What Reading Level is Rethinking Liberalism?

Rethinking Liberalism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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