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Liberalism After Communism

By: Jerzy Szacki

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This work is the first comprehensive presentation of liberal thought in Central Europe, especially in Poland, before and after 1989. The book contains a critical analysis of the proto-liberal anti-communist democratic opposition, in particular its ideas of the autonomy of the individual and civil society, and a description of economic liberalism as an alternative liberal orientation. The author's main theme, however, is the dilemma of liberalism in a post-communist society in which it is faced with historically unprecedented challenges. In countries which have no liberal tradition or the social or economic conditions which encouraged the emergence of liberalism in the past, the classic tenets of liberalism are undergoing essential modifications. Liberalism inescapably is becoming "constructivist" and serves primarily as the justification for a remarkable kind of social engineering whose objective is the rapid building of capitalism. This book is both an important contribution to our knowledge of the post-communist world and a voice in thh discussion on the nature and future of liberalism.

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Central European University Press

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J.J. Smolicz on Education and Culture

By: Jerzy Jaroslaw Smolicz

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J.J. Smolicz on Education and Culture

By: Jerzy Jaroslaw Smolicz

This book contains a selection of major articles by the author and focuses on cultural diversity in Australia, core values and cultural interaction, case studies in Australian pluralism and the interplay between tradition, education and change.

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James Nicholas Publishers

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1875408290

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A Suburb of Europe

Nineteenth-century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization

By: Jerzy Jedlicki

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A Suburb of Europe

Nineteenth-century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization

By: Jerzy Jedlicki

Jedlicki (history, Polish Academy of Sciences) explores the century- long Polish debate over the merits and drawbacks of the Western model of liberal progress and industrial civilization. First published in Polish by Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw, 1988. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Central European University Press

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9639116262

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Liberalism After Communism

By: Jerzy Szacki

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Liberalism After Communism

The Implications of the 1993 Elections to the Federal Assembly

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Liberalism After Communism

The Implications of the 1993 Elections to the Federal Assembly

By: Jerzy Szacki

This study is devoted to recent developments in Central European (especially Polish) political thought, and concentrates on the emergence of liberal ideas, a subject largely neglected by Western observers. It provides a clear account of protoliberal and liberal thinking in Central Europe both before and after 1989, a critical appraisal of the democratic opposition to communism, and an analysis of economic liberalism as its rival orientation. The author examines the changes which occur in classical liberal ideas when they are implemented in a region with practically no liberal tradition and no socioeconomic infrastructure, and shows how liberal ideas in Central Europe are becoming constructivist, functioning as the ideological justification for a new kind of Utopian social engineering that aims at constructing capitalism.

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