{"product_id":"the-struggle-for-a-decent-politics-by-michael-walzer-9780300267235","title":"The Struggle for a Decent Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA testament to what it means to be liberal by one of the most prominent political philosophers of our era\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere was a time when liberalism was an ism like any other, but that time, writes Michael Walzer, is gone. \u003cem\u003eLiberal\u003c\/em\u003e now conveys not a specific ideology but a moral stance, so the word is best conceived not as a noun but as an adjective—one is a “liberal democrat” or a “liberal nationalist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalzer itemises the characteristics described by \u003cem\u003eliberal\u003c\/em\u003e in an inventory of his own deepest political and moral commitments—among other things, to the principle of equality, to the rule of law, and to a pluralism that is both political and cultural.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnabashedly asserting that liberalism is a universal set of values (“it must be universal,” he writes, “since it is under attack everywhere”), Walzer reminds us in this inspiring book why those values are worth fighting for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433052586220,"sku":"9780300267235","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300267235.jpg?v=1774765672","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-struggle-for-a-decent-politics-by-michael-walzer-9780300267235","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}