Kelly, Paul 
ORCID: 0009-0008-5059-7657
(2024)
The post-liberal movement.
In: Ivison, Duncan, (ed.)
Research Handbook on Liberalism.
Research Handbooks in Political Thought series.
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 276 - 291.
ISBN 9781839109027
Abstract
Post-liberalism is a political movement that combines the ideas of political theorists, public intellectuals and commentators who all reject what they see as the tyranny of liberal ideas on practical politics and public policy. This chapter begins with a historical/ contextual section that traces the emergence of the movement to the rise of populism and its response to globalisation and its consequences in the first decade of the twenty-first century. The populist strand of post-liberalism has been closely associated with the rise of the politics of austerity in western democracies. This populist turn is then linked to the rejection of what is considered an elitist cosmpolitanism and its replacement by a return to communitarian theories of the common good. This recovery of the common good as the basis of a post-liberal politics has given rise to a further debate about the fundamental terms of moral political arguments as illustrated by the distinction between common good communitarianism and common good altruism as illustrated by developments in US legal and political theory that draw on mid-century European anti-liberal thought. The chapter distinguishes these three elements of post-liberalism as a way of ordering the debate amongst a movement that is still developing its critique of liberal political ideas and politics.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook... |
| Additional Information: | © 2024 Th Editor |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2024 08:09 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 18:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124275 |
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