Isbn: 9780300280128 - liberalism against itself: cold war intellectuals and the making of our times (12 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War eraamong them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trillingtransformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his iconoclastic style, Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophya path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorSamuel Moyn is Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University and author of many books on the history of ideas and politics in the twentieth century. He lives in New Haven, CT.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War eraamong them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trillingtransformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his iconoclastic style, Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophya path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 229 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Liberalism against Itself | Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times | Samuel Moyn | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2024 | Yale University Press | EAN 9780300280128 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War eraamong them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trillingtransformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his iconoclastic style, Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophya path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism. 229 pp. Englisch.…