The making of modern liberalism / / Alan Ryan

• Autore: Ryan Alan <1940->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2012
• Edizione: Course Book
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (681 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.51/309
• Soggetto topico: Liberalism - History
• Soggetto non controllato: Alexander Herzen; Alexis de Tocqueville; Autobiography; Bertrand Russell; East India Company; Enlightenment; Hannah Arendt; India; Isaiah Berlin; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; John Locke; John Rawls; John Stuart Mill; Joseph de Maistre; Karl Popper; L. T. Hobhouse; Leviathan; Marxism; Niccolo Machiavelli; On Liberty; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; T. H. Green; The Subjection of Women; Thomas Hobbes; Vietnam War; Whig Revolution; World War II; absolutism; adjectival freedom; administration; administrative reform; adverbial freedom; anti-Americanism; anti-imperialism; atomism; authority; autonomy; brutalization; bureaucracy; capitalism; civil service; coercion; communitarianism; community; criminal justice system; culture; death penalty; democracy; disenchantment; empire; epistemological antiauthoritarianism; equality; ethics; fairness; free will; freedom of speech; freedom; government; human nature; human rights; incarceration; individualism; individuality; inner life; intervention; justice; law of nature; legitimacy; liberal anxieties; liberal community; liberal education; liberal imperialism; liberal interventionism; liberalism; libertarianism; liberty; marriage; mechanical materialism; meritocracy; moral authority; natural rights; natural theology; obligation; opinion; ordinary language philosophy; ordinary warfare; pacifism; participatory democracy; passivity; patriotism; philosophical engineering; philosophy; physics; physiology; pluralism; poetry; political liberalism; political obligation; political philosophy; political theory; politics; progress; property; psychology; punishment; rationality of science; red terror; religion; religious authority; religious belief; religious dissent; republicanism; rights; romantic conservatism; science; self-assertion; self-maintenance; self-preservation; self-realization; self-sufficiency; social identity; state; terror; terrorism; terrorist states; toleration; utilitarianism; utility; violence; welfare state; white terror
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Conceptual and practical -- pt. 2. Liberty and security -- pt. 3. Liberty and progress, mill to popper -- pt. 4. Liberalism in America -- pt. 5. Work, ownership, freedom, and self-realization.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition-and worried about its future.This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.
• Titolo autorizzato: The making of modern liberalism
• ISBN: 1-283-51929-1; 9786613831743; 1-4008-4195-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818968303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II