Liberalism After Communism: The Implications of the 1993 Elections to the Federal Assembly

by Jerzy Szacki
translated by Chester A. Kisiel

Central European University Press, 1995
Cloth: 978-1-85866-015-8 | Paper: 978-1-85866-016-5 | eISBN: 978-963-386-484-5 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification JC574.2.P7S913 1995
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.51094091717

TOC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Front cover

Title page

I. Introduction

1. The discovery of liberalism in Eastern Europe

2. The actuality of liberalism

3. Has liberalism scored a victory?

4. Response to the challenge

5. The problem of the migration of ideas

6. What is this book about?

1. The difficulty of defining liberalism

2. Banalized liberalism

3. Who is a liberał in Eastern Europe?

4. A temperament or a philosophy of life?

5. The language of the rights of the individual

6. The problem of economic liberalism

7. A multitude of liberalisms

1. Eastern Europe vis-a-vis the West

2. The myth of the 'golden freedom' of old Poland

3. Economic backwardness and the absence of a liberał tradition

4. Non-economic reasons for the weakness of liberalism

5. Liberał ideas in interwar Poland

6. Communism versus liberalism

1 . Liberalism as communism a rebours

2. A question about the 'liberalism ' of the democratic opposition

3 . 'Anti-political ' politics

4 . Autonomy of the individual and individualism

5 . Collective individualism

6 . The private and the public

7 . Towards a civil society

8 . The problem of the theoretical tradition

9. What is civil society?

1 0 . Civil society vis-a-vis the morał unity of citizens

11 . A society without an economy

12 . Limitations of the idea of civil society

13 . Is this really protoliberalism?

14. The collectivism of Solidarity

15 . Conclusion

1. 'Creative' versus 'revolutionary' anti-communism

2. Direction of the reorientation

3. Various dimensions of the liberał reorientation

4. Capitalism in a communist state

5. How can communism be liquidated?

6. A different civil society

7. Liberalism as a whip against the left

8. Liberalism after 1989: the perspective of the big leap

9. Capitalism as an ideological project

10. The sin of constructivism

11. The allure of authoritarianism

12. 'Pragmatism' or etatism

13. The legacy of socialist etatism

14. The political crossroads of applied liberalism

15. Conclusion

1. How far does liberalism reach?

2. Liberalism versus Christian values

3. The situational and doctrinal context

4. The line of di vision

5. Is dialogue possible?

6. The weakness of political liberalism

VII. Epilogue

Index ofNames

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