{"product_id":"globalization-and-liberalism-9780268107291","title":"Globalization and Liberalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this learned and wide-ranging book, Trevor Shelley engages the controversial topic of globalization through philosophical exegesis of great texts. \u003ci\u003eGlobalization and Liberalism\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates and defends the idea that at the heart of the human world is the antinomy of the universal and the particular. Various thinkers have emphasized one aspect of this tension over the other. Some, such as Rousseau and Schmitt, have defended pure particularity. Others, such as Habermas, have uncritically welcomed the intimations of the world state. Against these twin extremes of radical nationalism and antipolitical universalism, this book seeks to recover a middle or moderate positionthe liberal position. To find this via media, Shelley traces a tradition of French liberal political thinkers who take account of both sides of the antinomy: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent. As Shelley argues, each of these thinkers defends the integrity of political bodies, denies that the universal perspec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I have been reading Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent for more than thirty years, but I have never encountered such a penetrating treatment of them taken together; and with his treatment of Manent, Trevor Shelley has gone further than anyone else, French or American, in grasping and laying out Manent’s distinctive political science.” —Paul Seaton, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Trevor Shelley thoughtfully illumines the place and limits of globalization in a democratic age.” —Daniel J. Mahoney, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Conservative Foundations of Liberal Order\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Trevor Shelley’s elegantly written book succeeds in recovering a noble and humane political perspective within the horizons of modern liberty and modern politics. . . . By combining thoughtful analysis of certain germane texts of political philosophy with attentiveness to the pressing issues of the age, Shelley has enriched the civic conversation in a spirit indebted to his three great inspirations in this worthy book.“ —\u003ci\u003eLaw and Liberty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Trevor Shelley has written a work in the tradition of History of Ideas on a hot button political issue. At issue is whether the most appropriate political form for us today is the nation-state or some form of a world-state.\" —\u003ci\u003eGlobal Intellectual History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Shelley takes on the challenging task of explaining the concept of globalization by engaging with great texts. At the root of globalization is a fundamental tension between those who emphasize the universal and those who identify with the particular in human life. Shelley tries to parse this distinction by looking through the lens of seminal authors and texts, and he ends up trying to find some middle ground between the two extremes.\" —\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a tribute to the dynamism of constitutional government, but it also reveals that ethnic hostilities in America were not different from those in Europe, even if in America they were directed inward and in Europe outward.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Review of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400754012503,"sku":"9780268107291","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780268107291.jpg?v=1730471480","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/globalization-and-liberalism-9780268107291","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}