Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts Contributor(s): Kahan, Alan S. (Editor), Atanassow, Ewa (Editor), Davis, J. C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474251056 ISBN-13: 9781474251051 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Binding Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 Click for more in this series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 320.51 |
LCCN: 2016057242 |
Series: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" L (0.80 lbs) 240 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kahan, Alan S.: - Dr Kahan is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism (Oxford, 1992) and Liberalism in Nineteenth Century Europe (Palgrave, 2003). He was also co-editor of The Tocqueville Reader (Wiley, 2002). Morrow, John: - John Morrow is Professor of Political Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland.. His publications include Coleridge's Political Thought; The History of Western Political Thought: A Thematic Introduction; Young England: The New Generation and (with Mark Francis) A History of English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century. |
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