Liberalism in dark times the liberal ethos in the twentieth century
"Today, liberals face a predicament: how to defend liberal principles, when adherence to them seems to constitute a fatal disadvantage against unprincipled opponents. The challenge is not new. In the early years of the twentieth century, liberalism was attacked, by critics on both the right and...
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Princeton
Princeton University Press,
2021.
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Оглавление:
- Introduction : the vices of virtue : liberalism and the problem of ruthlessness
- "Squeamishness is the crime" : ruthlessness, ethos, and the critique of liberalism
- Between tragedy and utopia : Weber and Lukács on ethics and politics
- A just man : Albert Camus and the search for a decent heroism
- The "morality of prudence" and the fertility of doubt : Raymond Aron's defense of a "realist" liberalism
- Against cynicism and sentimentality : Reinhold Niebuhr's chastened liberal realism
- "The courage of... our doubts and uncertainties" : Isaiah Berlin, ethical moderation, and liberal ethos
- Conclusion : good characters for good liberals? : ethos and the reconstruction of liberalism.