Brief Description
Essays on new liberalism demonstrate that liberalism can accommodate community, rights and liberty.
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The "New Liberalism" of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century is explored in this original collection of essays by leading scholars. This neglected strand of the liberal tradition demonstrates that rather than being irreparably individualist, liberalism can accommodate community as well as rights and liberty. These essays provide exciting insights into current debates in the liberal tradition and will be of great interest to students and scholars of political theory and the history of political thought.
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1. "There is much to recommend in this collection ... The chief strength of this volume is that it makes good on the editors' promise to show that a liberal tradition that leaps from John Locke to J.S. Mill to Rawls is a contemporary (and largely American) abbreviation of intellectual history that neglects key facets of liberal thought ... It can serve as a valuable asset." Victorian Studies
2. '... successfully challenges received views and asks for a comprehensive retrieval of the unfairly neglected resources of liberal thought'. Political Studies Review
3. 'The volume ... provides an excellent road map to a rich vein of political theorizing, and performs well its task of showing how an understanding of liberalism is seriously deficient without a knowledge of the new liberals.' Contemporary Political Theory
4. "Thought-provoking...The collection is carefully organized and readers are rewarded with a rich array...The collection succeeds admirably in its first goal of exploring the richness of the new liberal tradition." Philosophy in Review
