{"product_id":"the-realm-of-lesser-evil-9780745646206","title":"The Realm of Lesser Evil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinston Churchill said of democracy that it was the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the capacity of human beings to make themselves masters and possessors of nature', it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for themselves.  \u003cp\u003eAs Michea shows, the roots of this pessimism lie in the idea  an eminently modern one  that the desire to establish the reign of the Good lies at the origin of all the ills besetting the human race. Liberalism's critique of the tyranny of the Good' naturally had its costs. It created a view of modern politics as a purely negative art  that of defining the least bad society possible. It is in this sense that liberalism has to be understood, and understands itself, as the politics of lesser evil'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd yet while liberalism set\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this highly original study of contemporary free-trade liberalism, Jean-Claude Michea develops and brings to a conclusion his decade-long duel with the bankrupt thinking of the institutionalized Left. The originality of Michea's approach consists in his strenuous effort to discover and unravel the original populist themes in Marx's work, themes that return - recycled and somewhat refashioned - in present-day liberal individualism. This allows him to rewrite, in a controversial yet fascinating manner, the history of modernity. The result is a book that should be widely read and discussed and should stir up debate across the social sciences, drowning as they now are in a stale concoction of yesterday's intellectual fashions.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eZygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of the University of Leeds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: The Unity of Liberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Questions of Method.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three: The ‘Open Society’ and the Politics of Necessity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Tractatus Juridico-Economicus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Egoism and Common Decency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six: The Unconscious of Modern Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: From the Realm of Lesser Evil to the Best of Worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404388639063,"sku":"9780745646206","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745646206.jpg?v=1730486306","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-realm-of-lesser-evil-9780745646206","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}