Liberalism After Communism (Central European University Press Book) - Softcover

Szacki, Jerzy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858660165 ISBN 13: 9781858660165

Verlag: Central European University Press, 1996

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Book by Szacki Jerzy

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Reseña del editor:

This study is devoted to recent developments in Central European (especially Polish) political thought, and concentrates on the emergence of liberal ideas, a subject largely neglected by Western observers. It provides a clear account of protoliberal and liberal thinking in Central Europe both before and after 1989, a critical appraisal of the democratic opposition to communism, and an analysis of economic liberalism as its rival orientation. The author examines the changes which occur in classical liberal ideas when they are implemented in a region with practically no liberal tradition and no socioeconomic infrastructure, and shows how liberal ideas in Central Europe are becoming constructivist, functioning as the ideological justification for a new kind of Utopian social engineering that aims at constructing capitalism.

Biografía del autor:

Jerzy Szacki is Professor of Sociology at Warsaw University.

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• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1858660165
• ISBN 13: 9781858660165
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224