IndividualismECPR Press, 2006 - 148 páginas Individualism embraces a wide diversity of meanings and is widely used by those who criticise and by those who praise Western societies and their culture, by historians and literary scholars in search of the emergence of 'the individual', by anthropologists claiming that there are different, culturally shaped conceptions of the individual or 'person', by philosophers debating what form social science explanations should take and by political theorists defending liberal principles. In this classic text, Steven Lukes discusses what 'individualism' has meant in various national traditions and across different provinces of thought, analysing it into its component unit-ideas and doctrines. He further argues that it now plays a malign ideological role, for it has come to evoke a socially-constructed body of ideas whose illusory unity is deployed to suggest that redistributive policies are neither feasible nor desirable and to deny that there are institutional alternatives to the market. |
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... what was widely perceived as the crisis of the welfare state and the spectacular fall of communism . One consequence was a significant depletion of the meaning of ' socialism ' : the term could no longer be New introduction by the author.
Steven Lukes. ' socialism ' : the term could no longer be used with the same confidence that one knew what one meant and that one's meaning was understood , in contrast to its two traditional antonyms , ' capitalism ' and ' individualism ...
... socialism.12 True individualism's first essential characteristic was that it was primarily a theory of society , an attempt to understand the forces which deter- mine the social life of man , and only in the second instance a set of ...
... socialist agenda . In 1988 the distinguished financial journalist Samuel Brittan wrote : In every generation freedom is threatened by those who regard the individual person as inferior to some supposed collective whole ... the ...
... socialism , communitarianism , conservatism , and so on ; of how far the actual practice of public life lives up to them , and of criticisms and resulting proposals for reform . But why , Bird asks , do we assume these commitments to be ...
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