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  • Freedom from Fear

    An Incomplete History of Liberalism

    by Alan S. Kahan ...
    A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today’s liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical debate, Alan Kahan charts the development of Western liberalism from the late eighteenth century to the present. Examining key liberal thinkers and ... Read more

    Was $34.59 USD Now $21.59 USD

  • Alexis de Tocqueville

    by Alan S. Kahan ...
    Series series Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers
    Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Aristocratic Liberalism

    The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis De Tocqueville

    by Alan Kahan ...
    "Liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define. Burckhardt, Mill, and Tocqueville define one type of liberal thought. They share an aristocratic liberalism marked by distaste for the masses and the middle class, opposition to the commercial spirit, fear and contempt of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mind vs. Money

    The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism

    by Alan Kahan ...
    For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted contempt for capitalism and capitalists. They have written novels, plays, and manifestos to demonstrate the evils of the economic system in which they live. Dislike and contempt for the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, industry, and commerce have been a prominent trait of leading Western writers and artists. Mind vs. Money is an ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Liberal Moments

    Reading Liberal Texts

    Edited by Dr. Ewa Atanassow, Alan S. Kahan ...
    Series series Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Liberalism today has perhaps more supporters and adversaries than any other political movement. This volume traces liberalism's global ascent through essays about some of the thinkers and actors who participated in its rise and spread. The essays included here ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I

    The Complete Text

    by Alexis de Tocqueville ...
    Translated by Alan S. Kahan ...
    The Old Regime and the Revolution is Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulating discussion of the problem of preserving individual and political freedom in the modern world. Alan Kahan's translation provides a faithful, readable rendering ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume II

    Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon

    by Alexis de Tocqueville ...
    Translated by Alan S. Kahan ...
    The continuation of Alexis de Tocqueville’s great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution.With his monumental work The Old Regime and the Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59)—best known for his classic Democracy in America—envisioned a multivolume philosophical study of the origins of modern France that would examine the implications of French history on the nature ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions ... Read more

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  • Populism and the European Culture Wars

    The Conflict of Values between Hungary and the EU

    by Frank Furedi ...
    Concern and hostility towards populism has become a distinctive feature of contemporary political culture. In Europe such concerns are frequently directed at Eurosceptics, whose opposition to the European Union is often portrayed as a cultural crime. Ancient anti-democratic claims about the gullibility, ignorance and irrationality of the masses are frequently recycled through the anti-populist ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Being Civil

    The Struggle for Political Decency

    by John A. Hall ...
    Civility is desirable and possible, but can this fragile ideal be guaranteed? The Importance of Being Civil offers the most comprehensive look at the nature and advantages of civility, throughout history and in our world today. Esteemed sociologist John Hall expands our understanding of civility as related to larger social forces--including revolution, imperialism, capitalism, nationalism, and war ... Read more

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  • The Political Theory of Anarchism Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 51

    by April Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Science
    Anarchism is a significant but relatively neglected of political thought. April Carter examines the anarchist critique of the state, of bureaucracy, of democratic government and contrasts this attitude with more orthodox political theory. She also considers anarchist theories and social and economic organization, the relevance of anarchism to contemporary conditions and the problems of idealism in ... Read more

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  • End of History and the Last Man

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark New York Times bestseller and one of the most influential works of political thought of the modern era.First published in 1992, Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man made a provocative argument: that liberal democracy might represent the culmination of humanity’s long political evolution. In the decades since, that idea has been challenged, debated, and reconsidered as ... Read more

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