Agains engineers of human souls: Paternalism, managerialism and the development of Isaiah Berlins liberalism

• Autores: J.L. Cherniss
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 35, Nº 3, 2014, págs. 565-588
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Isaiah Berlin is conventionally identified as an anti-Communist Cold War intellectual, and a partisan of negative against positive liberty. Yet examination of Berlins early political writings reveals that Berlin was concerned with the dangers posed in Western, democratic societies by imposed conformity and the displacement of politics and regulation of private life by technocratic management. These writings also show that the vision of liberty to which Berlin was committed encompassed elements of what he would identify as positive, as well as negative, liberty. Berlin emerges as concerned not only with critiquing totalitarianism or advocating pluralism, but with articulating a liberal, humanist view of culture and the self against modern, technocratic politics.