Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot - Liberalism Confronts the World (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)

Current discussions of liberalism in world affairs tend to take a shortsighted view of the historical antecedents of the school of thought. Most jump directly from Kant to Wilson with little pause in between. In this book, Clinton has selected three thinkers to exemplify developments in the liberal world, all of whom were figures of real consequence in their own time, yet altogether different in temperament and subsequent fashion. Clinton shows how their interests and concerns, both complementary and divergent, make sense of nineteenth-century liberalism without turning it into the rigid doctrine it has never been - and never can be. By using their published works, speeches, and other correspondences, Clinton explores the way they applied their general insights on politics and society to the particular conditions of the international life. In so doing he provides a comparative study of the variants on a distinctively 'liberal' approach to international relations of this period, which may hold lessons for our own time.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	2003
Authors:	D. Clinton
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	159
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-52697-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Promotions
LSN:	1-349-52697-5
Barcode:	9781349526970

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