The Crisis of Contemporary Individualism and the Breakthrough of Classic Liberalism

By analyzing the internal debate among Neo-liberalism with John Rawls as the leading exponent, the essay discovers Right Individualism as its theoretical prerequisite, and proves this point with the analysis of Communitarians critique to Rawls.The essay argues that the Right Individualism could not respond to the critique effectively and resulted in the crisis of contemporary Individualism.But Classic Liberalism represented by Hayek had made another explanation of Individualism and offered its relevant social theory, and achieved a breakthrough of Individualism.The True Individualism affords us a meaningful reference to understand the leading ideologies such as “People-oriented” and so on.