Liberal Languages
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Author_Michael Freeden
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Civil disobedience
Civil society
Collectivism
Communitarianism
Consideration
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Employment
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Equal opportunity
Ethics
Eugenics
Government
Holism
Ideology
Imperialism
Individual and group rights
Individualism
Institution
Intellectual
Interdependence
Legislation
Legitimacy (political)
Liberalism
Marxism
Modernity
Morality
Nation state
Nationalism
Natural and legal rights
Nazism
New Liberals
Obligation
Organicism
Philosopher
Philosophy
Political culture
Political philosophy
Political science
Politician
Politics
Poverty
Principle
Psychology
Public sphere
Radicalism (historical)
Rational choice theory
Rationality
Reform movement
Requirement
Sectionalism
Self-help
Self-interest
Semantic field
Social democracy
Social issue
Social justice
Social liberalism
Social order
Social responsibility
Social theory
Sociology
Theory
Thought
Utilitarianism
Wealth
Welfare
Welfare state
World view
Writing
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- ISBN 9780691116785
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to welfare and community. Written by one of the world's leading experts on liberalism and ideological theory, it uses new methods of analyzing ideologies, as well as historical case studies, to present liberalism as a flexible and rich tradition whose influence has extended beyond its conventional boundaries. Michael Freeden argues that liberalism's collectivist and holistic aspirations, and its sense of change, its self-defined mission as an agent of developing civilization--and not only its deep appreciation of liberty--are central to understanding its arguments. He examines the profound political impact liberalism has made on welfare theory, on conceptions of poverty, on standards of legitimacy, and on democratic practices in the twentieth century. Through a combination of essays, historical case studies, and more theoretical chapters, Freeden investigates the transformations of liberal thought as well as the ideological boundaries they have traversed.
He employs the complex theory of ideological analysis that he developed in previous works to explore in considerable detail the experimental interfaces created between liberalism and neighboring ideologies on the left and the right. The nature of liberal thought allows us to gain a better perspective on the ways ideologies present themselves, Freeden argues, not necessarily as dogmatic and alienated structures, but as that which emanates from the continuous creativity that open societies display.
Michael Freeden is Professor of Politics at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. He is the founding-editor of the "Journal of Political Ideologies", and the director of the Centre for Political Ideologies at the University of Oxford.
