TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cherniss,Joshua L.
TI  - Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century 
SN  - 9780691220949
AV  - JC574 
U1  - 320.51 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abbreviation
KW  - Activism
KW  - Albert Camus
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Ambivalence
KW  - Anti-communism
KW  - Asceticism
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Awareness
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Certainty
KW  - Cold War liberal
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Communism
KW  - Comrade
KW  - Conscience
KW  - Consequentialism
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Critique
KW  - Cynicism (contemporary)
KW  - Cynicism (philosophy)
KW  - Deliberation
KW  - Demagogue
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Despotism
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Ethos
KW  - Extremism
KW  - Fanaticism
KW  - Generosity
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Greatness
KW  - Hatred
KW  - Hostility
KW  - Humility
KW  - Hypocrisy
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Institution
KW  - Intellectual
KW  - Isaiah Berlin
KW  - Jean-Paul Sartre
KW  - Left-wing politics
KW  - Liberal democracy
KW  - Machiavellianism
KW  - Marxism
KW  - Monism
KW  - Moral absolutism
KW  - Moral imperative
KW  - Moral psychology
KW  - Morality
KW  - Nazism
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Nonviolent resistance
KW  - Obstacle
KW  - Opportunism
KW  - Optimism
KW  - Pacifism
KW  - Pessimism
KW  - Philosophy of history
KW  - Political efficacy
KW  - Political ethics
KW  - Political freedom
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Political science
KW  - Political spectrum
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Power politics
KW  - Pragmatism
KW  - Radicalism (historical)
KW  - Rationality
KW  - Raymond Aron
KW  - Realism (international relations)
KW  - Realpolitik
KW  - Reason
KW  - Reformism
KW  - Reinhold Niebuhr
KW  - Relativism
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Right-wing politics
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Ruler
KW  - Self-interest
KW  - Self-righteousness
KW  - Sensibility
KW  - Sentimentality
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - Theory
KW  - Toleration
KW  - Totalitarianism
KW  - Uncertainty
KW  - Utopia
KW  - World War I
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; A Note on Sources, Citations, and Abbreviations --; Introduction. The Vices of Virtue: Liberalism and the Problem of Ruthlessness --; 1 “Squeamishness Is the Crime”: Ruthlessness, Ethos, and the Critique of Liberalism --; 2 Between Tragedy and Utopia: Weber and Lukács on Ethics and Politics --; 3 A Just Man: Albert Camus and the Search for a Decent Heroism --; 4 The “Morality of Prudence” and the Fertility of Doubt: Raymond Aron’s Defense of a Realist Liberalism --; 5 Against Cynicism and Sentimentality: Reinhold Niebuhr’s Chastened Liberal Realism --; 6 “The Courage of . . . Our Doubts and Uncertainties”: Isaiah Berlin, Ethical Moderation, and Liberal Ethos --; Conclusion. Good Characters for Good Liberals?: Ethos and the Reconstruction of Liberalism --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; A NOTE ON THE TYPE; restricted access
N2  - A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists of liberalism seem to have little to say. In Liberalism in Dark Times, Joshua Cherniss issues a rousing defense of the liberal tradition, drawing on a neglected strand of liberal thought.Assaults on liberalism—a political order characterized by limits on political power and respect for individual rights—are nothing new. Early in the twentieth century, democracy was under attack around the world, with one country after another succumbing to dictatorship. While many intellectuals dismissed liberalism as outdated, unrealistic, or unworthy, a handful of writers defended and reinvigorated the liberal ideal, including Max Weber, Raymond Aron, Albert Camus, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin—each of whom is given a compelling new assessment here.Building on the work of these thinkers, Cherniss urges us to imagine liberalism not as a set of policies but as a temperament or disposition—one marked by openness to complexity, willingness to acknowledge uncertainty, tolerance for difference, and resistance to ruthlessness. In the face of rising political fanaticism, he persuasively argues for the continuing importance of this liberal ethos
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