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Introduction: Naturalist Humanism -- Why Should We Be Naturalists? -- Standard Naturalism, The Placement Problem and Companion in Guilt Arguments -- Is the Natural Goodness Approach of Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson a Suitable Candidate for Liberal Naturalism? -- The Possibility of a Transcendental Naturalism -- The Myth of The Biological Given and The Developmentalist Turn -- Virtues as Powers and Perfection -- Virtue as Skilled Perception -- Culture as Our Ecological Niche -- The Burdens of Attentiveness -- Can There Be Bourgeois Virtues? -- Conclusion: Radical Hope and Revolutionary Virtue.

"Ric Knowles' study is a politically urgent, erudite intervention into the ecology of theatre and performance festivals in an international context. Since the 1990s there has been an exponential increase in the number and type of festivals taking place around the world. Events that used merely to be events are now "festivalized": structured, marketed, and promoted in ways that stress urban centres as tourist destinations and "creative cities" as targets of corporate enterprise. Ric Knowles examines the structure, content, and impact of international festivals that draw upon and represent multiple cultures and the roles they play in one of the most urgent processes of our times: intercultural negotiation and exchange. Covering a vast geographical sweep and exploring festival models both new and ancient, the work sets compelling new standards of practice for postpandemic festivals"--

Introduction: legal and political constitutionalism -- pt. I. Legal constitutionalism. Constitutional rights and the limits of judicial review ; The rule of law and the rule of persons ; Constitutionalism and democracy -- pt. II. Political constitutionalism. The norms of political constitutionalism: non-domination and political equality ; The forms of political constitutionalism: public reason and the balance of power ; Bringing together norms and forms: the democratic constitution.

"This book explores liberalism's past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J. S. Mill, through T. H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the pluralism and complexity of modern societies have undermined liberalism's communitarian and ethical assumptions. Studies of the Poll Tax fiasco in Britain, and of the constitutional dilemmas posed by the European Union confirm the contemporary inadequacies of traditional conceptions of liberal democracy. Drawing on Max Weber, Bellamy advocates a return to a Machiavellian approach to politics to resolve the clashes resulting from competing values within complex situations. Unlike Weber however, he concentrates on the republican and democratic aspects of Machiavelli's thought. He proposes a republican strategy whereby the political dispersal of power constrains any ideal or interest from dominating another. Instead, everyone must seek mutually acceptable compromises. The essays in "Rethinking Liberalism" map a passage from the liberal democratic norms and forms characteristic of nineteenth-century nation states, to an agnostic, democratic liberal politics suitable for the transnational and plural societies of the new millennium."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction The unification of Italy - making the ideal real -- 2. Vilfredo Pareto -- 3. Gaetano Mosca -- 4. Antonio Labriola -- 5. Benedetto Croce -- 6. Giovanni Gentile -- 7. Antonio Gramsci -- 8. Bobbio, della Volpe and the 'Italian road to socialism' -- 9. Conclusion Social theory and political action -- Glossary -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.