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Liberal democracy is now being more widely adopted so much so that the thesisthat this regime stands at the end of history has become fashionable. Yetimmense and unresolved internal problems arise in these regimes.In Nature and Liberty John Zvesper explores three of the most importantconflicts within modern liberal politics those connected with ethnicity andrace sex and family life and the bureaucratized government. He traces thedifficulties that liberals have in dealing with these problems to thephysiphobia the unreasonable fear of nature in contemporary liberal politicaltheory.Zvesper examines the practical problems by using evidence from the politicalexperience of the United States a regime that has often been taken toillustrate the characteristic virtues and vices of liberal democracy. The bookculminates in a critique of currently dominant liberal theories and a sketchof the outlines of a more adequate theory.The thesis of Nature and Liberty is that contemporary liberal politics bothin practice and in theory is too easily driven to libertarian andcommunitarian extremes because contemporary liberals are too reluctant to haverecourse to nature as a guide for political life. During the last quarter ofthe twentieth century there has been a resurgence of liberal politicalthinking but most of this thinking has deliberately avoided the question ofnatural standards for political life. John Zvesper shows how this avoidance hasbeen both practically destructive and theoretically unnecessary. «
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