Liberalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (25 page)
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Authors: Michael Freeden
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Table of Contents
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
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