In Search of European Liberalisms

Concepts, Languages, Ideologies
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-280-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 664 g

Reihe: European Conceptual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freeden, Michael

Fernández-Sebastián, Javier

Leonhard, Jörn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction: European Liberal Discourses: Conceptual Affinities and Disparities

Michael Freeden and Javier Fernández-Sebastián

Chapter 1. Habsburg Liberalisms and the Enlightenment Past, 1790–1848

Franz Leander Fillafer

Chapter 2. Formulating and Reformulating ‘Liberalism’: Germany in European Comparison

Jörn Leonhard

Chapter 3. ‘Friends of Freedom.’ First Liberalisms in Spain and Beyond

Javier Fernández-Sebastián

Chapter 4. Liberalism in Portugal in the Nineteenth Century

Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro and Rui Ramos

Chapter 5. The Rise and Fall of ‘Liberalism’ in France

Helena Rosenblatt

Chapter 6. Nordic Liberalisms. Sweden and Denmark in Comparison

Jussi Kurunmäki and Jeppe Nevers

Chapter 7. ‘Liberalism’ and ‘Liberality’. The Liberal Tradition in the Netherlands

Henk te Velde

Chapter 8. A Conceptual Scheme of Polish Liberalism: Six Pillars

Maciej Janowski

Chapter 9. Liberal Politics without Liberal Thought? The Strange Career of Italian Liberalism

Paolo Pombeni

Chapter 10. Encounters with Liberalism in Post-Soviet Russia

Olga Malinova

Chapter 11. Temporal Evolution and Morphological Complexity: The Multiple Layers of British Liberalism

Michael Freeden

Conclusion

Michael Freeden

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leonhard, Jörn
Jörn Leonhard is Full Professor in Modern European History at Freiburg University. From 2007 to 2012 he was one of the Founding Directors of the School of History of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). In 2015, he was elected member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

Freeden, Michael
Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His books explore modern liberal thought, the structure and history of modern ideologies, and the nature of political thinking.

Fernández-Sebastián, Javier
Javier Fernández-Sebastián is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of the Basque Country. He has published extensively on modern Spanish intellectual history and currently coordinates an on-going project on Iberian Atlantic conceptual transnational history.

Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His books explore modern liberal thought, the structure and history of modern ideologies, and the nature of political thinking.