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Liberalism as Responsibility: The Political Thought of Leonidas Donskis
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This book offers the first comprehensive reconstruction of Leonidas Donskis’ political thought, revealing a distinctive liberalism grounded in an embrace of mutual vulnerability, moral responsibility, and human connection against the backdrop of the vicissitudes of modernity. Tracing Donskis’ insights on existential insecurity, hatred and conspiratorial thinking, populism, and the abuses of power, the book aims to uncover a recipe for recovering democracy as a moral order. By foregrounding repersonalisation and the recovery of genuine encounters, the book illuminates Donskis’ hopeful, yet sober, vision: that in an unstable world, responsibility and reflective agency remain the foundations of a resilient democratic life.
Ignas Kalpokas, Ph.D., University of Nottingham, is Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at Vytautas Magnus University. He has published numerous monographs and journal articles on media and political theory.
Contents
Introduction
1 Dichotomies of Modernity
1 Prelude: The (Dis)order of Modernity
2 Hatred and Its Manifestations
3 Conspiracy Theories
4 What You Don’t See Is What You Don’t Get
2 Pathologies of Democracy
1 Imagology
2 Populism
3 Determinism Then and Now
3 All You Need Is Love?
1 Forms of Being in Common
2 Between Love and Hate
3 The Need for Repersonalisation
4 Tolerance and Diversity
4 Choice and Responsibility
1 The Morality of Choice
2 Making Choices as Taking Responsibility
3 Internal or Ascribed Responsibility?
Conclusion: Life of Vulnerability
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
1 Dichotomies of Modernity
1 Prelude: The (Dis)order of Modernity
2 Hatred and Its Manifestations
3 Conspiracy Theories
4 What You Don’t See Is What You Don’t Get
2 Pathologies of Democracy
1 Imagology
2 Populism
3 Determinism Then and Now
3 All You Need Is Love?
1 Forms of Being in Common
2 Between Love and Hate
3 The Need for Repersonalisation
4 Tolerance and Diversity
4 Choice and Responsibility
1 The Morality of Choice
2 Making Choices as Taking Responsibility
3 Internal or Ascribed Responsibility?
Conclusion: Life of Vulnerability
Bibliography
Index
This book is of interest to academic institutions and libraries, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of political theory and philosophy, normative political studies, and Central and Eastern European studies.