Retrieving Democracy (2): Communitarian, Marxist and Feminist Critics
Retrieving Democracy (2): Communitarian, Marxist and Feminist Critics
This chapter shows how Macpherson's communitarian, Marxist and feminist critics saw his project as mired by the other central strand of his thought: liberalism. Perhaps they unwittingly picked upon a danger in his immanent critique of liberalism. This attempted to expose its two contradictory ontologies and suggested that its possessive individualist one was becoming historically played out. He suggested that its ‘retrieved’ Millian, developmental ontology was now a genuine possibility. In adopting this strategy, Macpherson, these critics argued, was seemingly unable to move off the liberal terrain, especially of abstract individualism.
Keywords: C. B. Macpherson, Marx, liberal democratic theory, liberalism
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