Liberalism (eBook)

The Life of an Idea, Second Edition

Edmund Fawcett (Autor)

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2018 | 2., Second Edition
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8967-9 (ISBN)

Infos

A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to todayDespite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and updated edition of what has become a classic history of liberalism, Edmund Fawcett traces its ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of exemplary thinkers and politicians from the early nineteenth century to today. Significant revisionsincluding a new conclusionreflect recent changes affecting the world political order that many see as presenting new and very potent threats to the survival of liberal democracy as we know it. A richly detailed account of a vulnerable but critically important political creed, this book reminds us that to defend liberalism it is vital to understand its character and history.

Autor

Edmund Fawcett worked at The Economist for more than three decades, serving as chief correspondent in Washington, Paris, and Berlin, as well as European and literary editor. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: activism • americans • authoritarianism • Capitalism • Centre-left politics • Centre-right politics • centrism • chauvinism • civil service • class conflict • Classical Liberalism • Collectivism • Colonialism • communism • Constitutionalist (UK) • Criticism • Democracy • Democratic liberalism • distrust • economic democracy • economic liberalism • economist • economy • Employment • Equality before the law • Equal Opportunity • Exclusion • freedom of contract • freedom of speech • Free Trade • Germans • Government • imperialism • income • Individualism • Intellectual • jacksonian democracy • jingoism • Keynesian Economics • Laissez-faire • left-wing politics • Legislation • liberal democracy • liberal elite • Liberalism • Liberalism in the United States • Marxism • mass society • middle class • Modernity • Napoleon III • Nazism • Neoliberalism • New Liberals • Patriotism • Philosopher • Philosophy • Political Economy • Political Liberalism • Political Party • Political Philosophy • Political System • Politician • Politics • popular sovereignty • Populism • Progressivism in the United States • prussia • Radicalism (historical) • Representative Democracy • Republicanism • Richard Cobden • right-wing politics • Rule of Law • Secularism • Slavery • Social Democracy • social liberalism • social Progress • Social Theory • State (polity) • Suffrage • Superiority (short story) • tariff • Tax • The Other Hand • The Road to Serfdom • Toleration • Trade Union • Unemployment • Universal Suffrage • Utilitarianism • Voting • war • Wealth • Weimar Republic • welfare • Welfare State • Whigs (British political party) • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8967-7 / 1400889677
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8967-9 / 9781400889679