The third volume of the Oxford University Press Series “The Liberal Script at the Beginning of the 21st Century - Conceptions, Components, and Tensions“, is online now and freely accessible!

The book explores how liberalism is being contested on multiple fronts and by a wide range of actors in the 21st-century. The authors argue that it is important to understand these challengers, to have a better grasp of their common target. It introduces the "liberal script" as an analytical concept that allows us to analyze and problematize liberal thinking, as well as its different components and linkages and the tensions that they produce. 

A central question is: What happens when the pursuit of market efficiency is incompatible with social justice? It is these tensions between the different components of the liberal script that are at the heart of the challenges against it.

The volume integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from different disciplines, including political science, sociology, law, history, philosophy, post-colonial studies, and educational science. In demonstrating the theoretical and empirical added value of using the concept of "liberal script", the volume presents a multifaceted and nuanced picture of what is at stake in the challenges to liberalism in the early 21st century.