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Auteur(s) : Fawcett, Edmund (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Liberalism [Texte imprimé] : the life of an idea / Edmund Fawcett
Publication : Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Description matérielle : xvi, 468 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: It's about more than liberty ; The confidence of youth (1830-1880).
Historical setting in the 1830s: thrown into a world of ceaseless change ; Guiding
thoughts from founding thinkers: conflict, resistance, progress, and respect ; Liberalism
in practice: four exemplary politicians ; The nineteenth-century legacy: liberalism
without caricature ; Liberalism in maturity and the struggle with democracy (1880-1945).
Historical setting in the 1880s: the world liberals were making ; The compromises
that gave us liberal democracy ; The economic powers of the modern state and modern
market ; Damaged ideals and broken dreams ; Thinking about liberalism in the 1930s-1940s
; Second chance and success (1945-1989). Historical setting after 1945: liberal democracy's
new start ; New foundations: rights, a Democratic rule of law, and welfare ; Liberal
thinking after 1945 ; The breadth of liberal politics in the 1950s-1980s ; After
1989. Coda: Liberal dreams in the twenty-first century.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-431) and indexes
"Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the past two hundred
years of American and European history. Yet there is striking disagreement about what
liberalism really means and how it arose. In this engrossing history of liberalism--the
first in English for many decades--veteran political observer Edmund Fawcett traces
the ideals, successes, and failures of this central political tradition through the
lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians,
from the early nineteenth century to today. Using a broad idea of liberalism, the
book discusses celebrated thinkers from Constant and Mill to Berlin, Hayek, and Rawls,
as well as more neglected figures. Its twentieth-century politicians include Franklin
D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Willy Brandt, but also Hoover, Reagan, and Kohl.
The story tracks political liberalism from its beginnings in the 1830s to its long,
grudging compromise with democracy, through a golden age after 1945 to the present
mood of challenge and doubt."--book jacket
Sujet(s) : Libéralisme (philosophie) -- Histoire
Libéralisme -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
320.51 (23e éd.) = Libéralisme (idéologie politique)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691156897 (cloth) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0691156891 (cloth) (acid-free
paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44295978v
Notice n° :
FRBNF44295978
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