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Liberalism and Modern Society: An Historical Argument
Richard Bellamy
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Paperback. This major new book is a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of liberalism, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Bellamy examines the evolution of liberal ideas in Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DFG; 1DST; 3JH; 3JJ; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
This major new book is a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of liberalism, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
This major new book is a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of liberalism, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Bellamy examines the evolution of liberal ideas in Britain, France, Germany and Italy. In doing so he discusses the work of Mill, Green, Durkheim, Weber and Pareto among others, and situates their work firmly within their respective historical contexts, illustrating the contingency of many of the social and moral assumptions underlying liberal thought.
The book also examines critically the elaboration of liberal ideas in the work of contemporary political philosophers such as Hayek, Nozick and Rawls. Bellamy ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745610702
SKU
V9780745610702
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99-1
About Richard Bellamy
Richard Bellamy was previously a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has published a number of other books including Modern Italian Social Theory (Polity, 1987) and Liberalism and Recent Legal and Social Philosophy (Franz Steiner, 1989).
Reviews for Liberalism and Modern Society: An Historical Argument
'This book is excellent and deserves a wide audience. As a combination of political theory and institutional analysis, it is better than anything else on offer in the field. The linking of ideas, history and institutional analysis, it is very deftly done. ... This book is a major contribution to one of central political traditions of the modern world.' Raymond ... Read more