Julia Maskivker: Self-Realization and Justice: A Liberal Perfectionist Defense of the Right to Freedom from Employment. (New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xiv, 155.)
Abstract:The study's last chapter is titled "The Discontents of Liberal Democracy and the Continuing Relevance of Arendtian Thought." There the discussion of Arendt is accompanied by a lengthy, programmatic survey of ills and malaises besetting present-day American democracy. McCarthy fears that pervasive social anomie and persistent civic apathy may make for a crisis of political legitimacy; he warns that gross inequalities of power and wealth will grow ever more entrenched, owing to changes in the global economy. He … Show more
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