[lbo-talk] What Is a Liberal?

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Fri May 7 13:11:09 PDT 2010


thanks for the pointers. i will check these out, hopefully, over the summer.

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:28 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>> http://www.lacan.com/badbodies.htm
>>
>> this very simple observation of his has seemed to me -- ill-read in
>> much of the social theory of liberalism as i am -- one of his more
>> interesting contributions, and i am pleased to see it echoed here,
>> because I had not entirely trusted my gut on it.
>
> i will take a look.
>
> the first place i ever read this critique was in a book by Claes G. Ryn,
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy_and_the_Ethical_Life:_A_Philosophy_of_Politics_and_Community&action=edit&redlink=1>Democracy
> and the Ethical Life: A Philosophy of Politics and Community
>
> I'm sure CB MacPherson's The Real World of Democracy was huge to my
> understanding, but he is one of those thinkers I've simply absorbed, unable
> to recall why the work was eye-opening at the time. It certainly perturbed
> me. As I flip through the pages, I have marginalia that indicated
> irritation!
>
> shag



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