Against Liberalism -- The Second Series of Modern Political Translations

Author: (American) Kekes, translated by Ying Qi
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Publishing Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book is a representative work of critical liberalism. The author sharply criticizes the fundamental assumptions of liberalism in this book, questioning and denying the common assumptions of contemporary political philosophy. He uses rigorous logic to powerfully argue that liberalism is doomed to fail due to the contradiction between its positive and negative goals. The contradiction of liberalism lies in the fact that what it considers a necessary condition for a good life actually promotes the evil it seeks to avoid, while avoiding these evils depends on conditions that are opposite to those liberalism is committed to promoting. Liberalism is plagued by contradictions, making it unable to achieve its goals of freedom. The approach adopted in this book is that the citations appearing in the main text provide descriptive or critical explanations of some of their views. They appear as steps in the argument, with their sources indicated in parentheses. The citations that appear at the end of the book in the form of footnotes are intended to support the attribution of specific views to specific authors.