Alan Ryan

Making of Modern Liberalism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of the world's leading political thinkers explores the history, nature, and prospects of the liberal tradition

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781400841950
• Artikelnr.: 37865354

Autorenporträt

Alan Ryan, the former warden of New College, Oxford, has taught political theory at Oxford and Princeton since 1969. His books include The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, and Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education.

Rezensionen

"A magisterial volume. . . . It will appeal to specialists on particular thinkers and topics or to those interested in the trajectory of the liberal tradition inaugurated by Hobbes and Locke."--Jeremy Waldron, New York Review of Books