Tocqueville, Lieber, and Bagehot: Liberalism Confronts the World

✍ Scribed by David Clinton (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 167
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Series on the History of International Thought
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Why did M. Tocqueville Change His Mind?....Pages 17-43
Why did Professor Lieber say No?....Pages 45-74
Why was Mr. Bagehot Opposed?....Pages 75-104
Conclusion: The Legacy of Liberalism....Pages 105-121
Back Matter....Pages 123-159

✦ Subjects

Political Theory;Political Philosophy;International Relations;Modern Philosophy;Political Science

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