Histories of liberalisms

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Abstract

What can we learn from the new scholarship on the history of liberalism? Does it help re-cast current debates within liberalism and with its rivals? Does it deepen our understanding of its origins in productive ways, or undermine our confidence in its capacity to orient us for the future? It doesn’t have to do any of this - good history is valuable just in being good history. But I think it is worth posing the question. I won’t be able to provide a complete answer here. But what I hope to do is provide an overview of some of the different historical approaches to liberalism as a means of exploring how the questions they raise might shape our thinking about liberalism’s future.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationResearch Handbook on Liberalism
EditorsDuncan Ivison
Place of PublicationCheltenham
PublisherEdward Elgar
Chapter4
Pages62-78
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781839109034
ISBN (Print)9781839109027
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 May 2024

Keywords

  • liberalism
  • history of political thought
  • contextualism
  • Canon
  • Rawls
  • Locke

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