Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times by

Description: Liberalism against Itself by Samuel Moyn The Cold War roots of liberalisms present crisis FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Cold War roots of liberalisms 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. Author Biography Samuel 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. Review "[A] daring new book."—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post"A fascinating and combative intellectual history of what Moyn calls cold war liberalism."—Gideon Rachman, Financial TimesListed in New Statesmans Best Books of the Academic Presses, 2023"[A] provocative analysis of the early Cold Wars leading liberal intellectuals. . . . Moyns critique is hard-hitting."—John Nilsson-Wright, Global Asia"Moyn is a consistently interesting, challenging thinker bringing together intellectual history of the recent past and reflections on real-world politics. His new book is no exception."—Paul Kelly, Society"Moyn has written a masterful interconnected intellectual biography of Cold War liberals."—Atreyee Majumder, LSE Review of Books"Samuel Moyns new book offers a refreshingly different approach that neither wants to share naive defences nor conservative swan songs. . . . [Moyn] locates the confused debate about the fate of liberalism in strictly historical terms."—Julian Nicolai Hofmann, Soziopolis"Skeptical of received wisdom and over-burnished reputations, Liberalism against Itself is a continuously bracing and necessary exercise in intellectual iconoclasm. It not only rescues a distinguished Western tradition from its skittish cold-war exponents and bellicose neo-conservative exegetes; it also alerts us to the many political and intellectual possibilities still open to us."—Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present"In this compelling critique of Cold War liberalism, Samuel Moyn shows how, in the second half of the 20th century, liberalism lost its nerve, and its idealism. Today, with liberalism under siege, Moyn bids liberals to emerge from their blinkered, defensive crouch to reclaim a bold, progressive project of human agency and moral improvement. This is intellectual history at its best—by reminding us of wrong turns, it points us to new possibilities."—Michael J. Sandel, author of Democracys Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times"A striking, poignant account of how liberalism lost its way. Through a set of fascinating intellectual portraits, Samuel Moyn prompts us to confront liberalisms Cold War capitulation to a reactionary pessimism, and invites us to imagine a liberalism oriented toward emancipation. Liberalism against Itself is vital reading for all those concerned with liberalisms failures and possibilities."—Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex"Throughout my life, liberalism has been a politics of timidity and anxiety rather than freedom and equality. In his sterling reconstruction of recent history, Samuel Moyn shows that it was the Cold War that made liberalism what it is today. If there is to be a liberalism of tomorrow, liberals must leave the Cold War behind. If they do, Moyn claims in a brilliant provocation, there is an older idea of liberal perfection and progress to be recovered and a new world of freedom and equality to be won."—Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Details ISBN0300266219 Author Samuel Moyn Pages 240 Publisher Yale University Press Year 2023 ISBN-13 9780300266214 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-10-24 Imprint Yale University Press Subtitle Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2023-10-24 US Release Date 2023-10-24 UK Release Date 2023-10-24 Illustrations 8 b-w illus. ISBN-10 0300266219 Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 320.51 AU Release Date 2023-12-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159067298;

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