Political Science Communism & Socialism
C.B. Macpherson
Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- Communism & Socialism
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773535275
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $110.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773582996
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $109.99
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Description
Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson's analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of Macpherson's political philosophy - the distinction between extractive and developmental powers - against the background of social change in the democracies of the West in the period since the end of the Second World War.
About the author
William Leiss is a fellow and past president of the Royal Society of Canada, an officer of the Order of Canada, and professor emeritus at the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University. He is the author of several books, including Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication.