Liberal Moments (eBook, ePUB)

Reading Liberal Texts
Redaktion: Atanassow, Ewa; Kahan, Alan S.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

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 place the geographic and ideological diversity of liberal thought and practice as it developed since the eighteenth century. By exploring thinkers as diverse as Montesquieu, Abraham Lincoln, Jacob Burckhardt, Khayr al-Din, Hu Shih, John Rawls, and Czeslaw Milosz, this volume contributes toward a better understanding of liberalisms past and present.

Each chapter opens with a critical passage from the author under consideration and explores the author's significance for liberalism. By facilitating a direct encounter with influential authors and texts, the volume serves as an introduction both to the multiple dimensions of liberalism and to reading texts in political thought. By engaging with particular liberal moments, the essays allow readers to create and explore conversations among liberalisms across time and space. It thus encourages a broader and more nuanced understanding of the nature and history of liberalism. Stimulating, accessible and interdisciplinary, Liberal Moments will appeal to students and scholars in the history of political thought, intellectual history and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474251075
• Artikelnr.: 49041782

Autorenporträt

Ewa Atanassow is Junior Professor at Bard College Berlin. She is the co-editor of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy (2013). Alan S. Kahan is Professor of British Civilization at the Université de Versailles/St. Quentin-en-Yvelines, and a member of the faculty at Sciences Po St. Germain-en-Laye, France. He is the author of Mind versus Money: The War Betwen Intellectuals and Capitalism (2010), Alexis de Tocqueville (2010) in Bloomsbury's Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003) and Aristocratic Liberalism (1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction
Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. Kahan 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 Liberalism Confronts the World 7. Abraham Lincoln's Commentary on the "plain unmistakable language" of the Declaration of Independence
Diana Schaub 8. John Stuart Mill
Nicholas Capaldi 9. Alexander Herzen
Robert Harris 10. T. H. Green
John Morrow 11. Sarmiento: Liberalism Between Civilization and Barbarism
Iván Jaksic 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 Liberalism Confronts the Twentieth Century 15. Max Weber
Joshua Derman 16. Was Keynes a Liberal
Reinhard Blomert 17. John Dewey and Liberal Democracy
James T. Kloppenberg 18. Public Ownership and Totalitarianism: 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. Maruyama and Liberalism in Japan
Reiji Matsumoto 22. Liberty and Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin's Two Concepts of Freedom
George Crowder 23. Czeslaw Milosz
Michel Maslowski 24. John Rawls
Chad Van Schoelandt Notes Index