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- Title: Ann Coulter and the Problem of Pluralism: From Values to Politics (Essay)
- Author : Borderlands
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
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Introduction 1. Contemporary liberal political theory has reached its own internal limit--and that limit is politics. When confronted by today's proliferating political claims, the 'normative' approach of liberal political philosophy finds itself on the horns of a dilemma: either it stretches its universality in order to cover more cases, or it hardens its edges in an attempt to maintain critical purchase. But the former choice makes liberal theory so thin that it no longer clothes even the most modest of claims. And in taking the latter approach, liberal theory is forced to declare it 'reasonable' to place so-called indecent peoples beyond the purview of universal human rights. To maintain its commitment to universalism, liberalism must become meaningless; to remain meaningful, it must become illiberal. Divided within itself, the limits of liberalism belong entirely to it alone.