Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

Friends of liberalism will be grateful to Jeffrey Reiman for his lucid and persuasive account . . . Skeptics and critics of liberalism must read this book be cause of the challenge it presents to their attempts to discredit liberalism. Rieman effectively shows that those very criticisms presuppose the principles of the critical moral liberalism he espouses.These essays are unified by the author's powerful and interesting vision of liberalism. Of special note is the large-spirited and resourceful way in which Reiman incorporates insights from feminist, Marxist, and post-modernist critics without abandoning a commitment to Enlightenment ideas.Reiman's final product is an important and stimulating work that adds fuel to the debates raging both within and over liberal theory.This book challenges the presuppostion among professional philosophers. This striking re-evlaution of the acheivement of Descartes opens the hsitory of Western philosophy to radical reinterpretation.The essays that make up the chapters if this book are uniformly interesting, lucidly written, and well arguedddddJeffrey Reiman has done what I thought was impossible. He has broadened and deepened traditional Western liberalism with feminist, multicultural, and postmodern critiques . . . he shows us how to use 'critical moral liberal' theory to provide promising new solutions to some of our oldest practical problems.The essays that make up the chapters if this book are uniformly interesting, lucidly written, and well arguedCritical Moral Liberalism is an interesting book often insightful into the symptoms of some of liberalism's recent ills.The practical questions Reiman covers demonstrade a wide range of intellectually tough issues that he addresses with thoughtful understanding and rigor. Those that think that 'liberalism' is dead do not mean by this word what Reiman means, and they will likely find their claim challenged by this newest contribution to the field of arguments.This is a terrific booklă