The Liberal Tradition In Focus

Author : João Carlos Espada
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739100837
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Tradition in Focus written by João Carlos Espada and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberal Tradition in Focus is a collection of essays by prominent scholars in their fields on the nature of liberalism at the close of the twentieth century. Using a variety of analytical and substantive approaches, the authors compare the "old liberalism" of Locke, Smith, Hume, and Montesquieu to the variety of "new liberalisms" of thinkers such as Rawls, Dworkin, and Foucault. Each chapter of this engaging volume takes up a particular theme--democracy, capitalism, morality, feminism, toleration, constitutionalism, Third Way liberalism--and considers how the new liberalism's understanding differs from the old. The Liberal Tradition in Focus will be a valuable addition to the collections of scholars and students of political science and political philosophy.

Author : Louis Hartz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547541406
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Tradition in America written by Louis Hartz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991-07-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “brilliantly written” look at the original meaning of the liberal philosophy has become a classic of political science (American Historical Review). Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award As the word “liberal” has been misused and its meaning diluted in recent decades, this study of American political thought since the Revolution is a valuable look at the “liberal tradition” that has been central to US history. Louis Hartz, who taught government at Harvard, shows how individual liberty, equality, and capitalism have been the values at the root of liberalism—and offers enlightening historical context that reminds us of America’s unique place and important role in the world. “Lively and thought-provoking . . . Fascinating reading.” —The Review of Politics Includes an introduction by Tom Wicker

Author : David F. Ericson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135270953
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Tradition in American Politics written by David F. Ericson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This volume explores the full range and depth of the liberal tradition in America and how it has been perceived by political theorists and historians. The contributors weigh the various paradigm shifts in our understanding of American political development according to consensus, polarity and multiple traditions. They break new ground by taking into account African-American and proslavery thought, gender and identity politics, citizenship in the Reconstruction and Progressive eras, and models of SupremeCourt decision-making. The Liberal Tradition in America questions the effect of viewing American history through these paradigms on the progress of research, and moves the emphasis in research from the development of political ideas to the development of political institutions

Author : Louis Hartz
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156512695
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Tradition in America written by Louis Hartz and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1955 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Views American democracy, revolution, and capitalism in the light of Western history.

Author : Mark Hulliung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Liberal Tradition Reconsidered written by Mark Hulliung and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight prominent scholars consider whether Louis Hartz's interpretation of liberalism in his classic 1955 book should be repudiated or updated, and whether a study of America as a "liberal society" is still a rewarding undertaking.

Author : William Aylott Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Tradition written by William Aylott Orton and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Douglas Charles Rossinow
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812240498
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Progress written by Douglas Charles Rossinow and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rossinow revisits the period between the 1880s and the 1940s, when reformers and radicals worked together along a middle path between the revolutionary left and establishment liberalism. He takes the story up to the present, showing how the progressive connection was lost and explaining the consequences that followed.

Author : Peter Berkowitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400822904
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism written by Peter Berkowitz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue has been rediscovered in the United States as a subject of public debate and of philosophical inquiry. Politicians from both parties, leading intellectuals, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds are addressing questions about the content of our character. William Bennett's moral guide for children, A Book of Virtues, was a national bestseller. Yet many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, Victorian morality or with crude attempts by government to legislate morals. Peter Berkowitz clarifies the fundamental issues, arguing that a certain ambivalence toward virtue reflects the liberal spirit at its best. Drawing on recent scholarship as well as classical political philosophy, he makes his case with penetrating analyses of four central figures in the making of modern liberalism: Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill. These thinkers are usually understood to have neglected or disparaged virtue. Yet Berkowitz shows that they all believed that government resting on the fundamental premise of liberalism--the natural freedom and equality of all human beings--could not work unless citizens and officeholders possess particular qualities of mind and character. These virtues, which include reflective judgment, sympathetic imagination, self-restraint, the ability to cooperate, and toleration do not arise spontaneously but must be cultivated. Berkowitz explores the various strategies the thinkers employ as they seek to give virtue its due while respecting individual liberty. Liberals, he argues, must combine energy and forbearance, finding public and private ways to support such nongovernmental institutions as the family and voluntary associations. For these institutions, the liberal tradition powerfully suggests, play an indispensable role not only in forming the virtues on which liberal democracy depends but in overcoming the vices that it tends to engender. Clearly written and vigorously argued, this is a provocative work of political theory that speaks directly to complex issues at the heart of contemporary philosophy and public discussion. New Forum Books makes available to general readers outstanding, original, interdisciplinary scholarship with a special focus on the juncture of culture, law, and politics. New Forum Books is guided by the conviction that law and politics not only reflect culture, but help to shape it. Authors include leading political scientists, sociologists, legal scholars, philosophers, theologians, historians, and economists writing for nonspecialist readers and scholars across a range of fields. Looking at questions such as political equality, the concept of rights, the problem of virtue in liberal politics, crime and punishment, population, poverty, economic development, and the international legal and political order, New Forum Books seeks to explain--not explain away--the difficult issues we face today.

Author : Walter E. Volkomer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Tradition in American Thought written by Walter E. Volkomer and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of American Liberalism from Colonial times to the present-in the writings of Paine, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Bellamy, Holmes, Croly, Brandeis, Dewey, Galbraith, Warren and others.

Author : William Aylott Orton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Tradition written by William Aylott Orton and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the foundation established in memory of Oliver Baty Cunningham of the class of 1917, Yale college." Bibliographical foot-notes.