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Book SynopsisBefore her death in 1992, Judith Shklar was recognized as an outstanding political theorist and a major figure in the reinvigoration of liberal theory since the 1970s. This collection of essays explores Shklar's intellectual legacy, focusing on both her own ideas and the areas she explored.
Table of ContentsPreface Liberalism without Illusions: An Introduction to Judith Shklars' Political Thought Bernard Yack 1: On Negative Politics Michael Walzer 2: The Democracy of Everyday Life Nancy L. Rosenblum 3: Hope over Fear: Judith Shklar as Political Educator John Dunn 4: Judith Shklar's Dystopic Liberalism Seyla Benhabib 5: How Limited Is Liberal Government? Amy Gutmann 6: Judith Shklar as a Political Thinker Stanley Hoffmann 7: Ordinary Passions in Descartes and Racine Stephen Holmes 8: The Self Knowing the Self in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Tracy B. Strong 9: Shklar on Rousseau on Fenelon Patrick Riley 10: Liberalism, Marxism, and the Enlightenment: The Case of Harold Laski Isaac Kramnick 11: Thomas Hobbe's Antiliberal Theory of Liberty Quentin Skinner 12: Hypocrisy and Democracy Dennis F. Thompson 13: Active and Passive Justice Bernard Yack 14: The Political Case for Constitutional Courts Bruce Ackerman 15: The Freedom of Worthless and Harmful Speech George Kateb 16: The Unfinished Tasks of Liberalism Rogers M. Smith Appendix: A Life of Learning Judith N. Shklar Works by Judith N. Shklar Contributors Index
