The Modern Social Conflict: An Essay on the Politics of Liberty

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University of California Press, 01.01.1990 - 219 Seiten
The Modern Social Conflict offers a concise, authoritative, and accessible account of where the Western democracies stand today, how they got there, and where they must go if they are to retain their political and social freedom. Part history, part social analysis, part deeply committed prescription, this "essay on the Politics of Liberty" is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of the modern world by one of the most noted social and political thinkers of our day. The Modern Social Conflict offers a concise, authoritative, and accessible account of where the Western democracies stand today, how they got there, and where they must go if they are to retain their political and social freedom. Part history, part social analysis, part deeply committed prescription, this "essay on the Politics of Liberty" is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of the modern world by one of the most noted social and political thinkers of our day.
 

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Revolutions of Modernity
1
Citizenship and Social Class
25
Politics in Industrial Society
48
Temptations of Totalitarianism
72
Arons World
93
Crisis in the 1970s
118
Conflict After Class
141
A New Social Contract
166
Notes
195
Index
213
Urheberrecht

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Ralf Dahrendorf is Warden of St. Antony's College, Oxford. The author of twenty-eight books, Dr. Dahrendorf has also served in the government of West Germany, taught at major universities on both sides of the Atlantic, and been Director of the London School of Economics.

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