Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (25 page)

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Table of Contents

Cover page

Halftitle page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication page

Contents

List of illustrations

Chapter 1: A house of many mansions

Has liberalism triumphed?

The seductiveness of liberalism

A plethora of particular liberalisms

The sounds of liberalism_ an initial sampling

Liberalism as history, ideology, and philosophy

The morphology of liberalism

Liberal institutions

Chapter 2: The liberal narrative

The prehistory of liberalism

Social, economic, and cultural transformations

When liberalism met democracy

The junction of ideas

The rise of social liberalism

Liberalism in America: two instances

Applying the brakes

Chapter 3: Layers of liberalism

Disconnected and overlapping histories

Layer one

Layer two

Layer three

Layer four

Layer five

Liberal dilemmas

A liberal deficit in democracy?

Chapter 4: The morphology of liberalism

The permeable boundaries between ideologies

The liberal core

Putting flesh on the liberal bones

The precise and the fuzzy

Chapter 5: Liberal luminaries

The liberal ‘greats’

John Stuart Mill (1806‒73)

Thomas Hill Green (1836‒82)

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864‒1929)

John Atkinson Hobson (1858‒1940)

The wider liberal net

Chapter 6: Philosophical liberalism_ idealizing justice

Basic postulates

Rawls’s philosophical laboratory

Left-liberalism and ideal-type liberalism

Liberal neutrality

The standards of public life

Liberal philosophical pluralism

Chapter 7: Misappropriations, disparagements, and lapses

The neoliberal offensive

East European liberalism after 1989

The pseudo-liberals

Liberal internationalism

Liberalism as culprit

Liberal excesses and arrogance

Deliberate and inadvertent discrimination

Liberal passions: a redemptive finale

References

Further reading

Index

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