William A. Galston

Author of Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

About the Author

William A. Galston is a former policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and currently holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, where he serves as a senior fellow.

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Works by William A. Galston

Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State (1991) 51 copies

Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (2002) 49 copies

Virtue (1992) — Editor — 20 copies

Anger, Fear, Domination: Dark Passions and the Power of Political Speech (2025) 19 copies

The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (2004) 16 copies

Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives (2010) — Editor — 10 copies

Kant and the Problem of History (1975) 9 copies, 1 review

Public Matters: Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century (2005) 9 copies

Justice and the Human Good (1980) 7 copies, 1 review

Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities (1995) 6 copies

The New Challenge to Market Democracies : The Political and Social Costs of Economic Stagnation (2014) 3 copies

The Politics of Evasion: Democrats and the Presidency 1 copy

A Nation of Spectators: How Civic Disengagement Weakens America and What We Can Do About It 1 copy

Do Americans Believe Capitalism and Government Are Working? Religious Left, Religious Right, and the Future of the Economic Debate; Findings from the Economic Values Survey 1 copy

Ethical Dimensions of Global Development (2006) 1 copy

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Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought (2006) — Foreword, some editions — 176 copies, 1 review

Liberalism and the Moral Life (1989) — Contributor — 37 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009) — Contributor — 35 copies

Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America (1998) — Contributor — 35 copies

The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World (2003) — Contributor — 16 copies

Universalism vs. Relativism: Making Moral Judgments in a Changing, Pluralistic, and Threatening World (2006) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Canonical name: Galston, William A.
Legal name: Galston, William Arthur
Birthdate: 1946-01-17
Gender: male
Education: Cornell University (BA|1967)
University of Chicago (PhD|1973)
Nationality: USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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mavaddat 41 reviews

Kant and the Problem of History by William A. Galston

Galston points to a tension present in Kant's thinking on ethics between the moral obligations of individual actors and the seemingly amoral work of history unfolding. Why are we justified in personifying history in this way? Does this not amount to a kind of anthropomorphism of what is essentially just an aggregate of human actions through time? Galston also suggests that the tensions seems to allow an "end justifying the means" mentality in cases where one perceives oneself as playing an show more inextricable role in the disclosure of history. Although the book's argument does nicely resonate with the ethical motifs of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, I found it all a bit boring and uninspired. show less

Jul 11, 2017

vegetarian 866 reviews

Justice and the Human Good by William A. Galston

Covers LOTS of topics in ethics with regard to justice and outcomes called 'good' - DO recall that calling outcomes 'good' goes back (at least) as far as Genesis (where the Creation was called 'good' - despite all the conflict that currently seems inherent IN the world at hand).

Dec 15, 2011