Social and Cultural Problems in Contemporary Europe: On Recent Challenges to Liberal Ideas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Foreword 1
5. The Contemporary State of Liberal Theory
6. Citizenship and Moral Individuality 27
7. Liberal Values, Liberal Guilt, and the Distaste far Politics 47
8. Liberalism, Value, and Social Cohesion 73
9. The Value of Liberalism 85
10. Communitarianism in Practice: The Threat to Individual Rights from the Institutionalist Interpretation of the German Basic Law 105
11. Liberalism in the West
12. The Limits and the Crisis of Liberal Polities 117
13. Social and Cultural Problems in Contemporary Europe: On Recent Challenges to Liberal Ideas 123
14. Two Dilemmas of Liberalism: Historical Exhaustion and Internal Division in a World of Globalization 139
15. German Difficulties with Liberalism. A Historical Outline 151
16. Liberalism in the East
17. The Burdens of the Past 165
18. Liberalism in Central Europe after 1989 197
19. Can Weak-State Liberalism Survive ? 209
20. Neo-Liberalism, Post- Communist Transformation, and Civil Society 223
21. Constitutional Transformation in Post- Communist Central Europe: A Liberal Revolution ? 235
22. Law, Tradition, and Liberalism in Practice: Quo Vadis, East Central Europe? 249
23. Contributors 265
24. Name lndex 269