Liberalism and Communitarianism : On Certain Aphorias of Contemporary Theoretical Discourse Cover Image

Liberalizam i komunitarizam: O nekim aporijama suvremenoga teoretskog diskursa
Liberalism and Communitarianism : On Certain Aphorias of Contemporary Theoretical Discourse

Author(s): Jürgen Gephardt
Contributor(s): Davor Rodin (Translator)
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: liberalism; communitarism; debate; theoretical discourse; USA; sociology;

Summary/Abstract: The author looks into the political, historical and intellectual beginnings of the debate about liberalism and commutarianism in the USA from the standpoint of sociology. Then he goes on to describe its reception in Europe and finally to depict in greater detail its course in Germany. The purpose of the whole analysis may be reduced to the investigation of the possibilities for a transfer of theoretical and political debates from one into another national and social and political hermeneutical situation. On the one hand, the author is sceptical towards such transfers since they are at the same time very courageous transformations, while on the other this points to the common economic and political characteristics of contemporary industrial societies of the West which enable such transfers and make them understandable.

  • Issue Year: XXXII/1995
  • Issue No: 03+04
  • Page Range: 112-125
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Croatian
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