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Book SynopsisExplores how the virtues of socialism, including its moral stand on social justice, can be related to liberalism while overcoming debilitating aspects of the socialist inheritance. This book asks whether liberalism can recognize, appreciate, and manage human difference.
Trade ReviewWinner of the 1997 Michael Harrington Award, Caucus for a New Political Science section of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 1996 Lionel Trilling Award, Columbia University "[A] thoughtful and eminently readable contribution to debates about the future of liberalism... [Katznelson] argues for a synthesis of the most progressive elements of political liberalism with the strengths of the socialist critique of capitalism."--William E. Scheuerman, Political Science Quarterly "Liberalism's Crooked Circleis an intellectually rich engagement with two large issues in contemporary liberalism... Historically grounded and sociologically realistic--it is a great success."--The Boston Review of Books "Thoughtful and eminently readable contribution to debates about the future of liberalism... Katznelson's argument is provocative."--Political Science Quarterly "Katznelson's prose style is as elegant as his political stance is sophisticated. This is a subtle, searching examination of liberalism's complicated relationship to concerns about class inequality and social difference."--Library Journal "[An] unusual and inventive work."--Foreign Affairs
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION: THE CLUB OF THE CROOKED CIRCLE, pg. 3*ONE. "La lutte continue", pg. 29*TWO. The Storehouse of Power and Unreason, pg. 99*Index, pg. 187
