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Bleak Liberalism
Author | : Amanda Anderson |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780226923529 |
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Bleak liberalism -- Liberalism in the age of high realism -- Revisiting the political novel -- The liberal aesthetic in the postwar era: the case of Trilling and Adorno -- Bleak liberalism and the realism/modernism debate: Ellison and Lessing
Making Liberalism New
Author | : Ian Afflerbach |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781421440903 |
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"This book maps the rise of a modern liberal culture in the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. It shows how modern fiction writers responded to central concerns in liberal political thought, such as corporate ownership, reproductive rights, colorblind law, and presidential character"--
Liberalism in Dark Times
Author | : Joshua L. Cherniss |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2023-02-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691220932 |
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A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponents Today, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought. Assaults on liberalism—a political order characterized by limits on political power and respect for individual rights—are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin—each of whom is given a compelling new assessment here. Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition—one marked by openness to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos.
Music and Victorian Liberalism
Author | : Sarah Collins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2019-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108480055 |
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Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
Liberalism against Itself
Author | : Samuel Moyn |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2023-08-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300274943 |
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The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era—among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling—transformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his iconoclastic style, Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophy—a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.
Liberalism Diversity and Domination
Author | : Inder S. Marwah |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-05-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781108493789 |
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Examines how distinctive liberalisms respond to racial, cultural, gender-based and class-based forms of diversity and difference.
British Literature and the Life of Institutions
Author | : Benjamin Kohlmann |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192573186 |
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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in dialogue with political theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas, the book reclaims a substantive reformist language that we have ignored to our own loss. This reformist idiom made it possible to imagine the state as a speculative and aspirational idea—as a fully realized form of life rather than as an uninspiring ensemble of administrative procedures and bureaucratic processes. This volume traces the resonances of this idiom from the Victorian period to modernism, ranging from Mary Augusta Ward, George Gissing, and H. G. Wells, to Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf. Compared to this reformist language, the economism that dominates current debates about the welfare state signals an impoverishment that is at once intellectual, cultural, and political. Critiquing the shortcomings of the welfare state comes naturally to us, but we often struggle to offer up convincing defences of its principles and aims. This book intervenes in these debates by urging a richer understanding of critique: if we want to defend the state, Kohlmann argues, we need to learn to think about it again.
Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism
Author | : Scott M Reznick |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2024-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198891956 |
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This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US democracy in the early republic and antebellum eras. It examines how American writers reacted to three moments of profound divisiveness in the 1790s, 1830s, and 1850s.