Globalization and Liberalism: An Essay on Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent baixar o livro de graça

We live in anagewhere progressive intellectualspresuppose that true democracy demands the affirmation of global values and the drive toward a world government, a universal and homogenous state. Intellectuals, journalists, and educatorsbemoan the effects of globalization even as they uncritically endorse cosmopolitanism and dismissnational attachments as parochial and outdated. They confuse thoughtful patriotism and commitment to the self-governing nation with the narrowest form of nationalism.In a wonderfullylucid and learned essay, Trevor Shelley recovers a humaneliberal tradition, from Montesquieuto Manent, that takes the political seriously and does full justice to the legitimate claims of bothuniversality and particularity. Whether discussing Tocqueville's critique of the pantheistic reveries of democratic man or Pierre Manent's erudite defense of thenation, the political formthat providesthe indispensable framework fordemocratic self-government, Shelley thoughtfullyillumines the place and limits of globalization in a democratic age. Daniel J. Mahoney, Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship, Assumption College "