The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism

Liberal theory has been caricatured by its critics as an abstract, unworldly, trivial philosophical navel-gazing pursuit. This text counters this view by showing how liberalism can tackle wide-ranging practical concerns that urgently demand attention in 21st-century politics. Rather than presenting contemporary liberalism simply and narrowly as a survey of what its main academic protagonists have said over the past 30 years, the guiding principle of the volume is to conceptualize it primarily as a set of themes and approaches informed by the challenges to the practice of liberal politics.