Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot - Liberalism Confronts the World (Hardcover, 2003 Ed.)

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 19th 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 States
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	September 2003
Authors:	David Clinton
Dimensions:	222 x 141 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	2003 Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6247-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN:	1-4039-6247-2
Barcode:	9781403962478

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