Płynność i wielość w liberalnej demokracji?
Fluidity and large quantity in a liberal democracy?

Some (marginal) remarks to Professor Stanisław Filipowicz

Author(s): Bogdan Szlachta
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Political Theory, Political Sciences, Security and defense
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: liberal democracy; liberalism; postmodernism; agonism; multiculturalism
Summary/Abstract: Liberal democracy, founded on the ideas of negative individual rights and connecting democracy with liberal constitutionalism, has today lost its normative ground. The protection of human rights is the distinguishing element of modern Western liberal constitutionalism, although John Locke’s proposition had changed to cram into the language and concept of rights, whatever each of us supposes to be admirable or advantageous. Proposals presented by postmodernists and Chantal Mouffe are confronted with this process.

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