Isaiah Berlin's Cold War Liberalism

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-981-13-2792-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 94 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 258 g

Reihe: Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series

This book offers a succinct re-examination of Berlin’s Cold War liberalism, at a time when many observers worry about the emergence of a new Cold War. Two chapters look closely at Berlin’s liberalism in a Cold War context, one carefully analyses whether Berlin was offering a universal political theory – and argues that he did indeed (already at the time of the Cold War there were worries that Berlin was a kind of relativist). It will be of value for scholars of the cold war and of security issues in contemporary Asia, as well as students of history and philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Müller, Jan-Werner

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Concepts, Character, and the Specter of New Cold Wars.- 2.Isaiah Berlin and Reinhold Niebuhr: Cold War Liberalism as an Intellectual Ethos.- 3. The Contours of Cold War liberalism (Berlin in General).- 4. Liberal Pluralism and Common Decency.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan-Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University, where he also directs the Project in the History of Political Thought. His previous books include What is Populism? (2016) and Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (2011). He writes for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books.