Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1
French liberalism, an overlooked tradition?
Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt
Part I
In Search of a Lost Liberalism
2
Two liberal traditions
Larry Siedentop
3
The unity, diversity and paradoxes of French liberalism
Lucien Jaume
Part II
The French Liberal Conception of Liberty: Loyal to its Republican Roots?
4
Was Montesquieu liberal?
The Spirit of the Laws
in the history of liberalism
Céline Spector
5
The importance of republican liberty in French liberalism
Andrew Jainchill
6
Rethinking liberalism and terror
Stephen Holmes
Part III
The Formative Era: Liberal Dealings with Key Issues in Nineteenth-Century France
7
On the need for a Protestant Reformation: Constant, Sismondi, Guizot and Laboulaye
Helena Rosenblatt
8
‘Anti-Benthamism’: utilitarianism and the French liberal tradition
Cheryl B. Welch
9
Tocqueville: liberalism and imperialism
Alan S. Kahan
Part IV
Economic Liberalism
à la française
10
War, trade and empire: the dilemmas of French liberal political economy, 1780–1816
Richard Whatmore
11
Competition and knowledge: French political economy as a science of government
Philippe Steiner
12
Is there a French neoliberalism?
Serge Audier
Part V
At the Dawn of Mass Democracy: Reassessing the Role of Collective Institutions
13
The ‘sociological turn’ in French liberal thought
William Logue
14
The ‘illiberalism’ of French liberalism: the individual and the state in the thought of Blanc, Dupont-White and Durkheim
Jean-Fabien Spitz
Part VI
The Twentieth Century and Beyond
15
Raymond Aron and the tradition of political moderation in France
Aurelian Craiutu
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The politics of individual rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort
Samuel Moyn
Index
Index