Title:
The making of modern liberalism / Alan Ryan.
Author:
Ryan, Alan, 1940-
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Call Number:
JC574 .R93 2012
Abstract:
The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, has reflected on the past of the liberal tradition--and worried about its future.
Tracing the emergence of liberalism as articulated by some of its greatest proponents, including Locke, Tocqueville, Mill, Dewey, Russell, Popper, Berlin, and Rawls, the book explores key themes such as the meaning and nature of freedom, individual rights, and tolerance. It also examines how property rights fit within liberal thinking, how work and freedom are connected, and how far liberal freedoms are compatible with a socialized economy. This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.
ISBN:
9780691148403
Physical Description:
ix, 670 pages ; 25 cm
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Contents:
Part 1: Conceptual and practical. Liberalism ; Freedom ; Culture and anxiety ; The liberal community ; Liberal imperialism ; State and private, red and white ; The right to kill in cold blood : does the death penalty violate human rights? -- Part 2: Liberty and security. Hobbes's political philosophy ; Hobbes and individualism ; Hobbes, toleration, and the inner life ; The nature of human nature in Hobbes and Rousseau ; Locke on freedom : some second thoughts -- Part 3: Liberty and progress, Mill to Popper. Mill's essay On liberty ; Sense and sensibility in Mill's political thought ; Mill in a liberal landscape ; Utilitarianism and bureaucracy : the views of J.S. Mill ; Mill and Rousseau : utility and rights ; Bureaucracy, democracy, liberty : some unanswered questions in Mill's politics ; Bertrand Russell's politics : 1688 or 1968? ; Isaiah Berlin : political theory and liberal culture ; Popper and liberalism -- Part 4: Liberalism in America. Alexis de Tocqueville ; Staunchly modern, nonbourgeois liberalism ; Pragmatism, social identity, patriotism, and self-criticism ; Deweyan pragmatism and American education ; John Rawls -- Part 5: Work, ownership, freedom, and self-realization. Locke and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie ; Hegel on work, ownership, and citizenship ; Utility and ownership ; Maximizing, moralizing, and dramatizing ; The romantic theory of ownership ; Justice, exploitation, and the end of morality ; Liberty and socialism.
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