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Since the Enlightenment, liberalism as a concept has been
foundational for European identity and politics, even as it has
been increasingly interrogated and contested. This comprehensive
study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and
interpretations of the idea of liberalism in Europe, encompassing
not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties
that fall under the heading of "liberal" but also the intertwined
historical currents of thought behind them. Here we find not an
abstract, universalized liberalism, but a complex and overlapping
configuration of liberalisms tied to diverse linguistic, temporal,
and political contexts.
The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of
speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain as well as in
Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories.
Representing the views of both moderate and radical
eighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars
discover that twenty-fi rst-century controversies regarding the
extent of permissible speech have their origins in the eighteenth
century. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over
the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, the
West, has given rise to a triumphant Enlightenment narrative of
universalism and tolerance that masks these divisions and the
disparate national contributions to freedom of speech and other
liberal rights.
The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from
across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents
a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It
brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the
pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with
contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key
feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying
overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability,
spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides
indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread
disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.
Since the Enlightenment, liberalism as a concept has been
foundational for European identity and politics, even as it has
been increasingly interrogated and contested. This comprehensive
study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and
interpretations of the idea of liberalism in Europe, encompassing
not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties
that fall under the heading of "liberal" but also the intertwined
historical currents of thought behind them. Here we find not an
abstract, universalized liberalism, but a complex and overlapping
configuration of liberalisms tied to diverse linguistic, temporal,
and political contexts.
The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of
speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain as well as in
Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories.
Representing the views of both moderate and radical
eighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars
discover that twenty-fi rst-century controversies regarding the
extent of permissible speech have their origins in the eighteenth
century. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over
the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, "the
West," has given rise to a triumphant Enlightenment narrative of
universalism and tolerance that masks these divisions and the
disparate national contributions to freedom of speech and other
liberal rights.
The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from
across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents
a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It
brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the
pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with
contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key
feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying
overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability,
spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides
indispensable contextualization for an era of widespread
disenchantment with and misunderstanding of the European project.
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