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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, L ral Moments will appeal to students and scholars in the history of political thought, intellectual history and beyond.>
List of contents
Contributors
Series Editors' Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction -
Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. KahanLiberal Beginnings
1. Montesquieu -
Catherine Larrère2. In Praise of Liberty: Madame de Staël's
Considerations -
Aurelian Craiutu3. Benjamin Constant on the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns -
Jeremy Jennings4. Jeremy Bentham -
Emmanuelle de Champs5. James Madison -
Michael P. Zuckert6. Tocqueville's New Liberalism -
Ewa AtanassowLiberalism Confronts the World
7. Abraham Lincoln's Commentary on the "plain unmistakable language" of the
Declaration of Independence -
Diana Schaub8. John Stuart Mill -
Nicholas Capaldi9. Alexander Herzen -
Robert Harris 10. T. H. Green -
John Morrow11. Sarmiento: Liberalism Between Civilization and Barbarism -
Iván Jaksic12. Namik Kemal's Constitutional Liberalism: Sovereignty, Justice and the Critique of the Tanzimat -
H. Ozan Ozavci13. Khayr al-Din Basha -
Nouh El Harmouzi14. Jacob Burckhardt's Dystopic Liberalism -
Alan S. KahanLiberalism Confronts the Twentieth Century
15. Max Weber -
Joshua Derman16. Was Keynes a Liberal -
Reinhard Blomert17. John Dewey and Liberal Democracy -
James T. Kloppenberg18. Public Ownership and Totalitarianism: Hu Shih's reflections -
Lei Yi19. Hannah Arendt: Power, Action, and the Foundation of Freedom -
Roger Berkowitz20. Reading F. A. Hayek -
Edwige Kacenelenbogen21. Maruyama and Liberalism in Japan -
Reiji Matsumoto22. Liberty and Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin's
Two Concepts of Freedom -
George Crowder23. Czeslaw Milosz -
Michel Maslowski24. John Rawls -
Chad Van SchoelandtNotes
Index
About the author
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 Aristocratic Liberalism (1992), Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003), Alexis de Tocqueville (2010) in Bloomsbury's Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series and Mind versus Money: The War Betwen Intellectuals and Capitalism (2010).
