{"id":11689,"count":38,"description":"What are the intellectual roots of Western liberalism, and what are its strengths and weaknesses? Our interviews on social and political philosophy recommend books that explore these and related questions from every angle.\r\n\r\nOn a general level two professors of politics, Gary Bass<\/a> and John Tasioulas<\/a> both choose their best (and very different) books on the subject of human rights. The philosopher Cecile Fabre chooses hers on war<\/a> and the ethical dilemmas it throws up. Philosopher Carlos Fraenkel chooses his best books on philosophy in a divided world<\/a> and Jonathan Wolff, professor of public policy at Oxford, chooses his best books on political philosophy<\/a>.\r\n\r\nTurning specifically to the liberal tradition, historian Eric Foner discusses the evolution of liberalism<\/a>, focusing on American liberalism over the past 50 years. And Franklin Foer, editor of the New Republic<\/em>, looks at the roots of liberalism<\/a>, with a slightly longer perspective. Peter Berkowitz, fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, talks about liberty and morality<\/a>.\u00a0 Professor Timothy Stanton chooses his best books on toleration<\/a> and John Gray, emeritus professor of political thought at the LSE, looks at critiques of utopia and apocalypse<\/a>. Journalist Trevor Phillips gives us his best books on equality<\/a> and Will Hutton his on fairness and equality<\/a>. Maria Sveland talks about feminism<\/a>, Kurt Barling looks at racism<\/a> and Kwame Anthony Appiah at honour<\/a>.\r\n\r\nGary Gutting looks at Foucault<\/a> and Terrell Carver at Marx and Marxism<\/a>, arguing that Marx was, in mid-19th<\/sup>-century terms, a liberal. US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer discusses his intellectual influences<\/a>. Henry Hardy chooses his best books on Isaiah Berlin<\/a>.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/philosophy\/social-political-philosophy\/","name":"Social & Political Philosophy","slug":"social-political-philosophy","taxonomy":"category","parent":5194,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5194"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11689"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11689"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}