Liberal moments : reading liberal texts /
Liberalism today has perhaps more supporters and adversaries than any other political movement. This volume traces liberalism's global ascent through essays about some of the thinkers and actors who participated in its rise and spread. The essays included here present for the first time in one...
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474251082 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. Kahan
- Part 1. Liberal Beginnings: 1. Montesquieu / Catherine Larrère
- 2. In Praise of Liberty: Madame de Staël’s Considerations / Aurelian Craiutu
- 3. Benjamin Constant on the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns/ Jeremy Jennings
- 4. Jeremy Bentham / Emmanuelle de Champs
- 5. James Madison / Michael P. Zuckert
- 6. Tocqueville’s New Liberalism / Ewa Atanassow
- Part 2. Liberalism Confronts the World: 7. Abraham Lincoln’s Commentary on the ‘Plain Unmistakable Language’ of the Declaration of Independence / Diana J. Schaub
- 8. John Stuart Mill /Nicholas Capaldi
- 9. Alexander Herzen / Robert Neil Harris
- 10. T. H. Green / John Morrow
- 11. Sarmiento: Liberalism between Civilization and Barbarism / Iván Jaksić
- 12. Namik Kemal’s Constitutional Liberalism: Sovereignty, Justice and the Critique of the Tanzimat / H Ozan Ozavci
- 13. Khayr al-Din Basha / Nouh El Harmouzi
- 14. Jacob Burckhardt’s Dystopic Liberalism / Alan S. Kahan
- Part 3. Liberalism Confronts the Twentieth Century: 15. Max Weber / Joshua Derman
- 16. Was Keynes a Liberal? / Reinhart Blohmert
- 17. John Dewey and Liberal Democracy / James T. Kloppenberg
- 18. Hu Shih’s Reflections / Lei Yi
- 19. Hannah Arendt: Power, Action and the Foundation of Freedom / Roger Berkowitz
- 20. Reading F. A. Hayek / Edwige Kacenelenbogen
- 21. Japan / Reiji Matsumoto
- 22. Liberty and Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin’s ‘Two Concepts of Freedom’ / George Crowder
- 23. Czesław Miłosz / Michel Maslowski
- 24. John Rawls / Chad Van Schoelandt.