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Liberalism: The Life of an Idea

Table contents:

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION The Practice of Liberalism
PART ONE THE CONFIDENCE OF YOUTH (1830–1880)
1 Historical Setting in the 1830s: Thrown into a World of Ceaseless Change
2 Guiding Thoughts from Founding Thinkers: Conflict, Resistance, Progress, and Respect
i. Humboldt and Constant: Releasing People’s Capacities and Respecting Their Privacy
ii. Guizot: Taming Conflict without Arbitrary Power
iii. Tocqueville and Schulze-Delitzsch: The Modern Powers of Mass Democracy and Mass Markets
iv. Chadwick and Cobden: Governments and Markets as Engines of Social Progress
v. Smiles and Channing: Personal Progress as Self-Reliance or Moral Uplift
vi. Spencer: Liberalism Mistaken for Biology
vii. J. S. Mill: Holding Liberalism’s Ideas Together
3 Liberalism in Practice: Four Exemplary Politicians
i. Lincoln: The Many Uses of “Liberty” in the Land of Liberty
ii. Laboulaye and Richter: Tests for Liberals in Semiliberal Regimes
iii. Gladstone: Liberalism’s Capaciousness and the Politics of Balance
4 The Nineteenth-Century Legacy: Liberalism without Caricature
i. Respect, “the Individual,” and the Lessons of Toleration
ii. The Achievements That Gave Liberals Confidence
PART TWO LIBERALISM IN MATURITY AND THE STRUGGLE WITH DEMOCRACY (1880–1945)
5 Historical Setting in the 1880s: The World Liberals Were Making
6 The Compromises That Gave Us Liberal Democracy
i. Political Democracy: Liberal Resistance to Suffrage Extension
ii. Economic Democracy: The “New Liberalism” and Novel Tasks for the State
iii. Ethical Democracy: Letting Go Ethically and the Persistence of Intolerance
7 The Economic Powers of the Modern State and Modern Market
i. Walras, Marshall, and the Business Press: Resisting the State on Behalf of Markets
ii. Hobhouse, Naumann, Croly, and Bourgeois: Resisting Markets on Behalf of Society
8 Damaged Ideals and Broken Dreams
i. Chamberlain and Bassermann: Liberal Imperialism
ii. Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Wilson: Liberal Hawks of 1914–1918
iii. Alain, Baldwin, and Brandeis: Liberal Dissent and the Warfare State
iv. Stresemann: Liberal Democracy in Peril
v. Keynes, Fisher, and Hayek (i): Liberal Economists in the Slump
vi. Hoover and Roosevelt: Forgotten Liberal and Foremost Liberal
9 Thinking about Liberalism in the 1930s–1940s
i. Lippmann and Hayek (ii): Liberals as Antitotalitarians
ii. Popper: Liberalism as Openness and Experiment
PART THREE SECOND CHANCE AND SUCCESS (1945–1989)
10 Historical Setting after 1945: Liberal Democracy’s New Start
11 New Foundations: Rights, a Democratic Rule of Law, and Welfare
i. Drafters of the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights: Liberal Democracy Goes Global
ii. German Postwar Liberals: The 1949 Basic Law as Liberal Democracy’s Exemplary Charter
iii. Beveridge: Liberalism and Welfare
12 Liberal Thinking after 1945
i. Oakeshott and Berlin: Letting Politics Alone and “Negative” Liberty
ii. Hayek (iii): Political Antipolitics
iii. Orwell, Camus, and Sartre: Liberals in the Cold War
iv. Rawls: Justifying Liberalism
v. Nozick, Dworkin, and MacIntyre: Responses to Rawls, Rights, and Community
13 The Breadth of Liberal Politics in the 1950s– 1980s
i. Mendès- France, Brandt, and Johnson: Left Liberalism in the 1950s–1960s
ii. Buchanan and Friedman: Liberal Economists against the State
iii. Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterrand, and Kohl: Right Liberalism in the 1970s–1980s
PART FOUR LIBERAL DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
14 Two Decades That Shook Liberal Democracy
i. The Rise of the Hard Right
ii. Economic Discontents
iii. Geopolitical Loneliness
iv. Nationhood, Citizenship, and Identity
v. Intellectual Doubts and Disaffection
15 The Primacy of Politics

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