by Richard Bellamy · Penn State University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780271008806
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«Liberalism and Modern Society: A Historical Argument» is Richard Bellamy's essay, published by Penn State University Press in paperback.
Study of the evolution of modern liberalism in Britain, France, Germany and Italy through Mill, Green, Durkheim, Weber and Pareto. Bellamy argues that social change eroded the assumptions of classical liberalism and that Hayek, Nozick and Rawls start from anachronistic bases; only a realistic democratic liberalism would be viable.
Work in English of 320 pages, published in June 1992 by Penn State University Press; includes bibliography and index.
Suitable for students and researchers in political science, history and philosophy, and for readers interested in liberal thought.
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Richard Bellamy is a British political philosopher and Professor of Political Science at University College London. He is best known for his historical work on the Italian tradition of legal and political thought and his own writings in legal and political philosophy. Bellamy won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009 for his book Political Constitutionalism: a Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy. In 2012 he was awarded the Serena Medal by the British Academy, given 'for eminent services towards the furtherance of the study of Italian history, philosophy or music, literature, art, or economics.' Bellamy has been the lead editor of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) since 2003. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) in 2008, a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2022, and a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2024.
