[Very Short Introductions 434] • Liberalism by Freeden, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents List of illustrations Chapter 1: A house of many mansions

Has liberalism triumphed? The seductiveness of liberalism A plethora of particular liberalisms The sounds of liberalism_ an initial sampling Liberalism as history, ideology, and philosophy The morphology of liberalism Liberal institutions

Chapter 2: The liberal narrative

The prehistory of liberalism Social, economic, and cultural transformations When liberalism met democracy The junction of ideas The rise of social liberalism Liberalism in America: two instances Applying the brakes

Chapter 3: Layers of liberalism

Disconnected and overlapping histories Layer one Layer two Layer three Layer four Layer five Liberal dilemmas A liberal deficit in democracy?

Chapter 4: The morphology of liberalism

The permeable boundaries between ideologies The liberal core Putting flesh on the liberal bones The precise and the fuzzy

Chapter 5: Liberal luminaries

The liberal ‘greats’ John Stuart Mill (1806‒73) Thomas Hill Green (1836‒82) Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864‒1929) John Atkinson Hobson (1858‒1940) The wider liberal net

Chapter 6: Philosophical liberalism_ idealizing justice

Basic postulates Rawls’s philosophical laboratory Left-liberalism and ideal-type liberalism Liberal neutrality The standards of public life Liberal philosophical pluralism

Chapter 7: Misappropriations, disparagements, and lapses

The neoliberal offensive East European liberalism after 1989 The pseudo-liberals Liberal internationalism Liberalism as culprit Liberal excesses and arrogance Deliberate and inadvertent discrimination Liberal passions: a redemptive finale

References Further reading Index Social media Very Short Introduction