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Praise for Norberto Bobbio: "Italy's leading legal and political philosopher ... one of the most authoritative figures in his country's politics." -- Guardian
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‘Italy’s leading legal and political philosopher... one of the most authoritative figures in his country’s politics.’
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I think this is probably one of the very few decent books in the "radical thinkers" series, no only is it readable in a very nice plain prose but it succeeds in communicating very nicely the major developments in liberalism, democracy and socialism from their inceptions to the present day, it does so with some style in a series of short, succinct chapters.
The concepts of and emergence of individual rights, individual freedom and individual proprietorship, then with democratisation the concepts of an emergence of social rights, social freedoms and criticisms of individual proprietorship, central to socialism's emergence, are dealt with.
The final conclusion is that there are two seperate and competiting definitions of liberty, positive and negative, freedom to and freedom from, Bobbio believes that with the retreat to first principles of individual proprietorship and market forces of capitalist/liberal intellectuals like Nozick are returning to an authentic liberalism which of necessity opposes and exists independently and apart from conceptual or practical democracy.
I cant level many criticisms at this book, the writing is superb and the content manages to summarise a lot of political history without polemic or bias, on the other hand if anyone is seeking to examine the concept of negative liberty and its application to a real world of individuals vulnerable to structural unemployment or predatory behaviour, ie were the same negative liberties could be threatened by firms other than government operating within the legal parameters established by government, this is only a start.
The concepts of and emergence of individual rights, individual freedom and individual proprietorship, then with democratisation the concepts of an emergence of social rights, social freedoms and criticisms of individual proprietorship, central to socialism's emergence, are dealt with.
The final conclusion is that there are two seperate and competiting definitions of liberty, positive and negative, freedom to and freedom from, Bobbio believes that with the retreat to first principles of individual proprietorship and market forces of capitalist/liberal intellectuals like Nozick are returning to an authentic liberalism which of necessity opposes and exists independently and apart from conceptual or practical democracy.
I cant level many criticisms at this book, the writing is superb and the content manages to summarise a lot of political history without polemic or bias, on the other hand if anyone is seeking to examine the concept of negative liberty and its application to a real world of individuals vulnerable to structural unemployment or predatory behaviour, ie were the same negative liberties could be threatened by firms other than government operating within the legal parameters established by government, this is only a start.
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A complex yet succinct analysis of two philosophies, their interrelationships, their interactions with other perspectives and how they've changed in different circumstances. A work of political philosophy which takes for granted (rather than ignores) the social class aspect of ideology and history. Very interesting, especially the clear linkage between democracy and the maximal state and its corollary the antagonism between liberalism and, for example, universal suffrage.
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Bobbio's on liberalism and democracy
17 April 2002
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This small but very useful book writen by Norberto Bobbio in the early eighties give us a general picture of the relations between the liberal tradition and the defense o democracy as political regime. There is not a justaposition between these two philosophical concepts as we are so many times tempted to make. Both step out different traditions: Bobbio enlighten us that the major philosophers akeen with political liberalism, such as Stuart Mill, Locke, or Alexis de Tocqueville can hardly be named as partisans of democracy. They are liberals in the old and classical way. That's why he defends that the acquisition of democracy in contemporary political philosophy is a recent event and also a on-definitive one. By the time Bobbio write this small essay he saw liberalism and democratic socialism capable of connecting eachother ina liberal-socialism sincretic result, that kept from each vision of the world and society the best os ist contributions: the preserverance of liberty, in the first case; the pursuit of the possible equality, in the second. Time showed that this sinthesis was dispensable because socialism perished along its mistakes and contradictions when te Berlin Wall and the communist empire implode in 1989.
That add a major responsability to the liberal field -where Bobbio reviews himself as man of the political left - to match major concerns of social equality and solidarity to the three-century old defense of freedom and political liberties, rule of law and primacy of the market.
That's why «Liberalism and Democracy» should be used as a memorandum of liberalism as we see it today.
The reading of tis book should be complemented with «Left and Right» and «What Socialism?».
That add a major responsability to the liberal field -where Bobbio reviews himself as man of the political left - to match major concerns of social equality and solidarity to the three-century old defense of freedom and political liberties, rule of law and primacy of the market.
That's why «Liberalism and Democracy» should be used as a memorandum of liberalism as we see it today.
The reading of tis book should be complemented with «Left and Right» and «What Socialism?».
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