Description: The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis 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 era—among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling—transformed 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 philosophy—a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism.
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EAN: 9780300266214
UPC: 9780300266214
ISBN: 9780300266214
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Book Title: Liberalism Against Itself : Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: United States / 20th Century, History & Theory, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 13.8 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Samuel Moyn
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
