Deprived of its normative core and disappointed in its hopes for universal justice, contemporary liberalism is mute in the face of current conflicts and crises. Regina Kreide seeks reasons for liberal theory’s loss of relevance in today’s violent, chaotic and radically unequal world.
Regina Kreide
is professor of Political Theory and the History of Ideas at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. She is co-editor with Robin Celikates and Tilo Wesche of Transformations of Democracy: Crisis, Protest and Legitimation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).