Liberal Moments

Author : Ewa Atanassow,Alan S. Kahan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474251075

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Liberal Moments by Ewa Atanassow,Alan S. Kahan Pdf

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.

Author : S. Sawyer,Iain Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137581266

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In Search of the Liberal Moment by S. Sawyer,Iain Stewart Pdf

This book explores a series of challenging new perspectives on the origins, development, and legacy of France's 'liberal moment' during the second half of the twentieth century. It surveys a significant shift in interest regarding socio-political philosophy and culture, with the 1970s emergence of a blossoming French curiosity about liberalism and liberal thought. While liberalism had played an important role in French political debate prior to this period, liberal voices were often disregarded. It was not until this newfound fascination with liberalism by French intellectuals—spanning from the second left to the new right—that a French liberal revival truly occurred. In Search of the Liberal Moment addresses this revival, its resultant resuscitation of nineteenth-century authors like Tocqueville and Constant, its relationship with the contemporary rise of neoliberalism in Britain and the US, and how its adherents used liberalism to rethink the past, present, and future of modern democracy.

Author : Robert Latham
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0231107579

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The Liberal Moment by Robert Latham Pdf

How did the U.S. establish its dominant role in international relations in the second half of the twentieth century? What central ideas, policies, and methods shaped the Cold War international order? Latham focuses on World War II and its aftermath, when the U.S. in consort with other nations, attempted to impose an order on the world based on principles of self-determination and liberal democracy.

Author : J. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403978677

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Liberalism and the Limits of Power by J. Williams Pdf

This book provides the first critical assessment of important recent developments in Anglo-American liberal theorizing about limited government. Following a comparative study of canonical liberal philosophers Hayek and Rawls, the book reveals a new direction for conceptualizing limited government in the twenty-first century, highlighting the central role that democratic politics - rather than philosophical principles - should play in determining the uses and limits of state power in a liberal regime. Williams draws on recent scholarship in the field of democratic theory and cultural studies in arguing for a shift in the ways liberals approach the study of politics.

Author : Bruce Miroff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015079171990

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The Liberals' Moment by Bruce Miroff Pdf

Revisits the largely forgotten story of how the McGovern campaign represented the zenith of sixties-style liberalism, and how its historic defeat still haunts Democrats to this day--and in the process identifies what Democrats must do before they can reassume their role as agents of progressive change.

Author : Keith Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : OCLC:1150230680

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Leaving the Left by Keith Thompson Pdf

Author : Mark Garnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350001541

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Conservative Moments by Mark Garnett Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. As a complex and multifaceted world-view, conservatism is often pigeonholed and partially understood. And while the nature of conservative ideology is warmly contested among scholars, no-one can deny its prominence in contemporary debates and its effects on the politics of everyday life. These 16 essays written by expert scholars and specialists offer a broad survey of conservative thought that extends beyond typical historical and geographic boundaries to include past thinkers like Plato and Edmund Burke, non-European conservative traditions such as Japan and Russia, and political 'practitioners' including Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Charles de Gaulle. Each essay grapples with short primary source extracts while offering instructive criticism and commentary. Conservative Moments offers students a useful, accessible, and comprehensive exposition of this political ideology.

Author : Bruce Baum
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137560320

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The Post-Liberal Imagination by Bruce Baum Pdf

In The Post-Liberal Imagination , Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism 'in a critical spirit' by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics. The book analyzes movies, television, and popular music to rethink the liberal views of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights in the Bush-Obama era.

Author : Nick Clegg,Demos (Organization : London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 1906693242

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The Liberal Moment by Nick Clegg,Demos (Organization : London, England) Pdf

Author : Ben Shapiro
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780063001848

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The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro Pdf

New York Times Bestseller How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line? According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political chattering class, the greatest threat to American freedom lies in right-wing authoritarianism. We’ve heard that some 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump represent the rise of American fascism; that conservatives have allowed authoritarianism to bloom in their midst, creating a grave danger for the republic. But what if the true authoritarian threat to America doesn’t come from the political right, but from the supposedly anti-fascist left? There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists—college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising—have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition. The authoritarian Left is aggressively insistent that everyone must conform to its values, demanding submission and conformity. The dogmatic Left is obsessed with putting people in categories and changing human nature. Everyone who opposes it must be destroyed. Ben Shapiro looks at everything from pop culture to the Frankfurt school, social media to the Founding Fathers, to explain the origins of our turn to tyranny, and why so many seem blind to it. More than a catalog of bad actors and intemperate acts,The Authoritarian Moment lays bare the intolerance and rigidity creeping into all American ideology – and prescribes the solution to ending the authoritarianism that threatens our future.

Author : Leonard V. Kaplan,Rudy Koshar
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739140741

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The Weimar Moment by Leonard V. Kaplan,Rudy Koshar Pdf

The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal –its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the networks of power and thought – is the essential context of the present volume, whose basic premise is unhappiness with Hegel’s remark that we learn no more from history than we cannot learn from it. The challenge of the papers in this volume is to provide the material to confront the present effectively drawing from what we can and do understand.

Author : David Blaney,Naeem Inayatullah
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538155172

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Within, Against, and Beyond Liberalism by David Blaney,Naeem Inayatullah Pdf

This book provides a generous immanent description of liberalism, but also works against and looks beyond it. It engages liberalism and its variants in IPE at a moment in time when liberalism and liberal internationalism are experiencing something of a crisis of confidence. Though we are deeply critical of liberalism, especially the variant that dominates in IPE, we picture liberalism as variegated and rife with doubt and tensions that potentially open it to traditions of thinking beyond itself. We also show how these tensions and doubts often prompt attempts at closure in the form of defensive maneuvers, like Eurocentric conceptions of development that justify Western dominance and the condemnation of scholarship that exposes relations of domination and subordination as violating the precepts of unit-level positive science. But recognizing these maneuvers as defensive reactions may help us grasp the moments of greater openness within liberalism that connect to traditions that think against and beyond its central tenets.

Author : Iain Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484442

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Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century by Iain Stewart Pdf

The first historical account of Raymond Aron's role in the reconfiguration of liberal thought in the short twentieth century.

Author : Andrew J. S. Jainchill
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : France
ISBN : 0801446694

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Reimagining Politics After the Terror by Andrew J. S. Jainchill Pdf

In the wake of the Terror, France's political and intellectual elites set out to refound the Republic and, in so doing, reimagined the nature of the political order. They argued vigorously over imperial expansion, constitutional power, personal liberty, and public morality. In Reimagining Politics after the Terror, Andrew Jainchill rewrites the history of the origins of French Liberalism by telling the story of France's underappreciated "republican moment" during the tumultuous years between 1794 and Napoleon's declaration of a new French Empire in 1804. Examining a wide range of political and theoretical debates, Jainchill offers a compelling reinterpretation of the political culture of post-Terror France and of the establishment of Napoleon's Consulate. He also provides new readings of works by the key architects of early French Liberalism, including Germaine de Staël, Benjamin Constant, and, in the epilogue, Alexis de Tocqueville. The political culture of the post-Terror period was decisively shaped by the classical republican tradition of the early modern Atlantic world and, as Jainchill persuasively argues, constituted France's "Machiavellian Moment." Out of this moment, a distinctly French version of liberalism began to take shape. Reimagining Politics after the Terror is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of political thought, the origins and nature of French Liberalism, and the end of the French Revolution.

Author : Rob Shaw,Richard Zussman
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781772032550

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A Matter of Confidence by Rob Shaw,Richard Zussman Pdf

Shortlisted, 2019 BC and Yukon Book Prizes Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction A breathtaking behind-the-scenes look at the dramatic rise and fall of Christy Clark’s BC Liberals, the return to power of the NDP, and what it means for British Columbia’s volatile political climate going forward. British Columbia’s political arena has always been the site of dramatic rises and falls, infighting, scandal, and come-from-behind victories. However, no one was prepared for the historic events of spring 2017, when the Liberal government of Christy Clark, one of the most polarizing premiers in recent history, was toppled. A Matter of Confidence gives readers an insider’s look at the overconfidence that fuelled the rise and fall of Clark’s premiership and the historic non-confidence vote that defeated her government and ended her political career. Beginning with this pivotal moment, the book goes back and chronicles the downfall of Clark’s predecessor, Gordon Campbell, which led to her unlikely victory in 2013, and traces the events leading up to her defeat at the hands of her NDP and Green opponents. Told by reporters Richard Zussman and Rob Shaw, who covered every moment of the election cycle, and illustrated by candid and extensive interviews with political insiders from both sides of the aisle—including Christy Clark and John Horgan—this book is a must read for anyone who cares about BC politics and the future of the province.