A turn to empire Pitts, Jennifer
2005., 20090411, 2009, 2005, 2005-01-01, 20050101
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A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund ...Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the most prominent British and French liberal thinkers, including John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, vigorously supported the conquest of non-European peoples. Pitts explains that this reflected a rise in civilizational self-confidence, as theories of human progress became more triumphalist, less nuanced, and less tolerant of cultural difference. At the same time, imperial expansion abroad came to be seen as a political project that might assist the emergence of stable liberal democracies within Europe. Pitts shows that liberal thinkers usually celebrated for respecting not only human equality and liberty but also pluralism supported an inegalitarian and decidedly nonhumanitarian international politics. Yet such moments represent not a necessary feature of liberal thought but a striking departure from views shared by precisely those late-eighteenth-century thinkers whom Mill and Tocqueville saw as their forebears.
Masters of the universe Jones, Daniel Stedman; Jones, Daniel Stedman
2012., 20140721, 2014, 2012-09-24, 2014-07-21, 20120101
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Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement,Masters of the Universetraces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy ...under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since. Daniel Stedman Jones argues that there was nothing inevitable about the victory of free-market politics. Far from being the story of the simple triumph of right-wing ideas, the neoliberal breakthrough was contingent on the economic crises of the 1970s and the acceptance of the need for new policies by the political left. This edition includes a new foreword in which the author addresses the relationship between intellectual history and the history of politics and policy.
Fascinating, important, and timely, this is a book for anyone who wants to understand the history behind the Anglo-American love affair with the free market, as well as the origins of the current economic crisis.
"One of the most important political books of 2018."-Rod Dreher,American ConservativeOf the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century-fascism, communism, and liberalism-only the last ...remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that itisan ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.
While most of the literature has attempted to justify harsh and soft containment given some fundamental commitments of political liberalism, I focus on how justified forms of containment can in ...themselves be deemed effective. This article shows that a reading of Rawls allows for a comparison of different containment practices based on their capacity to protect the stability of liberal democracies under serious threat. And, in making it possible to compare harsh and soft containment, I evaluate immediate stability gains against citizens’ judgements about their liberal democratic institutions.
La presente contribución persigue el objetivo de profundizar en el conocimiento de las relaciones entre aristas esenciales que definen las trayectorias del proceso de integración europea, para lo ...cual los autores incursionan en las elaboraciones económicas, jurídicas y sociales que componen el cuerpo originario desde el cual emerge la Unión Europea. La metodología que han seguido los investigadores reside en el estudio inicial de las raíces históricas del proceso referido para incursionar en una hermenéutica de la arquitectura jurídica que acompaña el proceso para develar aportes y brechas en conjunción con la epistemología que fundamenta el proceso desde las concepciones económicas de la economía social de mercado y el ordo liberalismo que le han dado vida.
El presente estudio aborda las culturas políticas, tratando elementos que generaron lazos con el poder constitucional durante la llegada del liberalismo en Portugal. Empleando fuentes primarias, ...trata la filtración del nuevo poder hacia la sociedad civil. Aborda el periodo de implantación del liberalismo con João VI, Pedro IV y María II, entre 1820 y 1836. Rescata los medios de socializar el liberalismo en Portugal y especialmente en la provincia de Évora, como cabeza de la región del Alentejo. Rescata objetos o acciones que buscaban generar lazos sentimentales entre los monarcas y la población lusa. Trata el modo en que se promovieron los sentimientos políticos hacia la patria, la constitución o la corona: mediante la cultura material y acciones conmemorativas.
Laski y Hobhouse: las trayectorias del liberalismo social inglés (José Luís Monereo PéreZ). El New Deal como encrucijada para el progresismo jurídico liberal norteamericano: el caso de Roscoe Pound ...(Leopoldo García Ru/'Z. Cuenta la obra con un excelente trabajo introductorio de Richard Bellamy, catedrático de Ciencias Políticas en el University College London, que aporta un análisis global de la evolución del liberalismo entre 1918 y 1945 y el impacto subsecuente de esa evolución, enfatizando la triple crisis vivida en aquellos años y que afectó, en primer lugar, al correcto funcionamiento del mercado libre como forma de organización económica -con las resultantes propuestas de corrección vía intervención estatal-; en segundo lugar, al descrédito de la democracia y del aparato normativo e institucional liberal dirigido a contener una política de masas que ya se evidenciaba problemática en lo político; y, por Ultimo, una severa crisis de valores palpable en el ascenso de alternativas colectivistas y totalitarias frente al canon liberal. Hayek amerita un capítulo centrado en su figura, firmado por Elvira Alonso Romero (Universidad CEU-Cardenal Herrera) y que incluye un detallado análisis del complejo pensamiento hayekiano y la aportación del mismo dentro del renacido neoliberalismo que triunfaría en los años setenta y que incluía un importante papel para el Estado como garante de la libertad del individuo frente a la coacción externa.
The Making of Modern Liberalismis 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, has reflected on the past of the liberal tradition--and worried about its future.
Tracing the emergence of liberalism as articulated by some of its greatest proponents, including Locke, Tocqueville, Mill, Dewey, Russell, Popper, Berlin, and Rawls, the book explores key themes such as the meaning and nature of freedom, individual rights, and tolerance. It also examines how property rights fit within liberal thinking, how work and freedom are connected, and how far liberal freedoms are compatible with a socialized economy.
This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.
For centuries Finland has been a province of the Swedish empire, but in 1809 Finland became an autonomous part of Russia and so became tied to the eastern cultural sphere. For much of the first part ...of the century Finnish society was rather stagnant as the diet of Finland, the legislative assembly of the grand duchy of Finland, was not allowed to convene and censorship of the press stifled discussion on needed reforms. Slowly things however started to change, as liberalism broke thorough from the 1850s onward. What had mostly been an academic discussion during the early years of the century now became mainstream thought and characterized the tendency in economic policy for decades to come. The more liberally minded Russian emperor Alexander II, who succeeded to the throne in 1855, played an important role in the liberalization of Finland. In 1880 the Finnish liberal movement reached its peak as the short-lived Liberal Party was founded. From this point on liberalism as a political creed somewhat lost its luster as it was challenged by political competition from forces organized around the two language groups of Finland.
