Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. Kahan

Part One Liberal Beginnings

 1  Montesquieu Catherine Larrère , translated by Alan S. Kahan

 2  In Praise of Liberty: Madame de Staël’s Considerations Aurelian Craiutu

 3  Benjamin Constant on the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns Jeremy Jennings

 4  Jeremy Bentham Emmanuelle de Champs

 5  James Madison Michael P. Zuckert

 6  Tocqueville’s New Liberalism Ewa Atanassow

Part Two Liberalism Confronts the World

 7  Abraham Lincoln’s Commentary on the ‘Plain Unmistakable Language’ of the Declaration of Independence Diana J. Schaub

 8  John Stuart Mill Nicholas Capaldi

 9  Alexander Herzen Robert Neil Harris

10 T. H. Green John Morrow

11 Sarmiento: Liberalism between Civilization and Barbarism Iván Jaksić

12 Namik Kemal’s Constitutional Liberalism: Sovereignty, Justice and the Critique of the Tanzimat Tanzimat H. Ozan Ozavci

13 Khayr al-Din Basha Nouh El Harmouzi

14 Jacob Burckhardt’s Dystopic Liberalism Alan S. Kahan

Part Three Liberalism Confronts the Twentieth Century

15 Max WeberJoshua Derman

16 Was Keynes a Liberal? Reinhard Blomert

17 John Dewey and Liberal Democracy James T. Kloppenberg

18 Public Ownership and Totalitarianism: Hu Shih’s Refl ections Lei Yi , translated by Yang Xiao

19 Hannah Arendt: Power, Action and the Foundation of Freedom Roger Berkowitz

20 Reading F. A. Hayek Edwige Kacenelenbogen

21 Japan Reiji Matsumoto

22 Liberty and Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin’s ‘Two Concepts of Freedom’ George Crowder

23 Czesław Miłosz Michel Maslowski

24 John Rawls Chad Van Schoelandt

Notes

Further Reading

Index