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This book seeks to salvage liberalism, as a form of political association and as a unique culture, from the wreck of the Enlightenment. Following the lead of John Rawls's work since 1980, Bridges seeks to rethink the fundamental concepts and moral ideals of liberalism in ways that support the recovery and affirmation of the particularistic cultural identity of the West.

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• Preface
• Introduction: Salvaging Liberalism from the Wreck of the Enlightenment
• 1 Modernist Liberalism and Its Consequences
• Civic culture and the modernist rhetoric of pure theory
• Consequences of modernist liberalism
• 2 Rawls and the Shaping of a Postmodern Liberalism
• Addressing the consequences of modernist liberalism
• The rhetorical turn: from political theory to civic culture
• The teleological turn: citizenship as a highest-order interest
• 3 The De-Totalization of Politics
• The rhetorical turn and the intelligibility of liberal democratic citizenship
• The de-totalizing character of liberal doctrine as a component of civic culture
• The de-totalization of the liberal democratic public sphere
• 4 The Liberation of Desire
• Motivating full cultural citizenship
• The counter-narrative force of civic freedom
• Civic justice and the liberation of desire
• 5 God and the Space of Civic Discourse
• Inventing postmodern civic culture
• God and the civic good
• Civic friendship, Christian love and the providential order of history
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Bridges joins commentators such as William Galston (Liberal Purpose, CH, Mar'92) and Ronald Beiner (What's the Matter with Liberalism?, CH, Dec'92) in probing the weaknesses of modernist liberalism. Taking his bearings from John Rawl's Political Liberalism (CH, Dec'93), Bridges criticizes Enlightenment-based metaphysical foundations for individual citizenship and autonomy because this universalism has implicitly denigrated particularistic cultural ideals and worldviews. More importantly, it has lessened both the intelligibility of liberal ideals to particularistic cultural communities, and also the possibility that these communities will "succeed in discovering ... within their own local cultural traditions motivational resources supportive of the pursuit of the civic good." Bridges suggests that we "de-totalize" the concept of civic freedom by recognizing that it applies only to a part of life. Civic freedom requires individual commitment to particularistic life ideals, and also the affirmation of their possible revocability both by oneself and by others. The tension between simultaneous commitment and detachment provides the space for civic freedom, and it is this narrative imagination that it is the task of civic education to cultivate. Bridges incorporates creativity as well as intellect in this thoughtful and provocative project. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty. E. R. Gill; Bradley University

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Thomas Bridges is Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy and Religion Department at Montclair State University.