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In Search of European Liberalisms : Concepts, Languages, Ideologies / ed. by Michael Freeden, Jörn Leonhard, Javier Fernández-Sebastián.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: European Conceptual History ; 6Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789202816
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.51094 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. European Liberal Discourses: Conceptual Affinities and Disparities -- Chapter 1 Habsburg Liberalisms and the Enlightenment Past, 1790–1848 -- Chapter 2 Formulating and Reformulating ‘Liberalism’ Germany in European Comparison -- Chapter 3 ‘Friends of Freedom’ First Liberalisms in Spain and Beyond -- Chapter 4 Liberalism in Portugal in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5 The Rise and Fall of ‘Liberalism’ in France -- Chapter 6 Nordic Liberalisms Sweden and Denmark in Comparison -- Chapter 7 ‘Liberalism’ and ‘Liberality’ The Liberal Tradition in the Netherlands -- Chapter 8 A Conceptual Scheme of Polish Liberalism Six Pillars -- Chapter 9 Liberal Politics without Liberal Thought? The Strange Career of Italian Liberalism -- Chapter 10 Encounters with Liberalism in Post-Soviet Russia -- Chapter 11 Temporal Evolution and Morphological Complexity The Multiple Layers of British Liberalism -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary: Since the Enlightenment, liberalism as a concept has been foundational for European identity and politics, even as it has been increasingly interrogated and contested. This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the idea of liberalism in Europe, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the heading of “liberal” but also the intertwined historical currents of thought behind them. Here we find not an abstract, universalized liberalism, but a complex and overlapping configuration of liberalisms tied to diverse linguistic, temporal, and political contexts.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. European Liberal Discourses: Conceptual Affinities and Disparities -- Chapter 1 Habsburg Liberalisms and the Enlightenment Past, 1790–1848 -- Chapter 2 Formulating and Reformulating ‘Liberalism’ Germany in European Comparison -- Chapter 3 ‘Friends of Freedom’ First Liberalisms in Spain and Beyond -- Chapter 4 Liberalism in Portugal in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5 The Rise and Fall of ‘Liberalism’ in France -- Chapter 6 Nordic Liberalisms Sweden and Denmark in Comparison -- Chapter 7 ‘Liberalism’ and ‘Liberality’ The Liberal Tradition in the Netherlands -- Chapter 8 A Conceptual Scheme of Polish Liberalism Six Pillars -- Chapter 9 Liberal Politics without Liberal Thought? The Strange Career of Italian Liberalism -- Chapter 10 Encounters with Liberalism in Post-Soviet Russia -- Chapter 11 Temporal Evolution and Morphological Complexity The Multiple Layers of British Liberalism -- Conclusion -- Index

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Since the Enlightenment, liberalism as a concept has been foundational for European identity and politics, even as it has been increasingly interrogated and contested. This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the idea of liberalism in Europe, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the heading of “liberal” but also the intertwined historical currents of thought behind them. Here we find not an abstract, universalized liberalism, but a complex and overlapping configuration of liberalisms tied to diverse linguistic, temporal, and political contexts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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