Liberalism's crooked circle letters to Adam Michnik

Katznelson, Ira. (Author). Michnik, Adam (Added Author).

Summary: In Ira Katznelson's view, Americans are squandering a tremendous ethical and political opportunity to redefine and reorient the liberal tradition. In an opening essay and two remarkable letters addressed to Adam Michnik, who is arguably East Europe's emblematic democratic intellectual, Katznelson seeks to recover this possibility. By examining issues that once occupied Michnik's fellow dissidents in the Warsaw group known as the Crooked Circle, Katznelson brings a fresh realism to old ideals and posits a liberalism that "stares hard" at cruelty, suffering, coercion, and tyrannical abuses of state power. Like the members of Michnik's club, he recognizes that the circumference of liberalism's circle never runs smooth and that tolerance requires extremely difficult judgments.

Record details

ISBN: 9781400821860 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 140082186X (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0691034389 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780691034386
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xx, 192 p.)
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user. Terms of use -
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: the club of the crooked circle -- Correspondence -- One. "La lutte continue" -- Two. The storehouse of power and unreason -- Index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.