Ewa Atanassow - Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts

Liberal Moments

Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought

Series Editors

J. C. Davis, Emeritus Professor of History, University of East Anglia, UK

John Morrow, Professor of Political Studies, University of Auckland,
New Zealand

Textual Moments provides accessible, short readings of key texts in selected fields of political thought, encouraging close reading informed by cutting-edge scholarship. The unique short essay format of the series ensures that volumes cover a range of texts in roughly chronological order. The essays in each volume aim to open up a reading of the text and its significance in the political discourse in question and in the history of political thought more widely. Key moments in the textual history of a particular genre of political discourse are made accessible, appealing and instructive to students, scholars and general readers.

Published

Utopian Moments: Reading Utopian Texts

Miguel Avils and J. C. Davis

Censorship Moments: Reading Texts in the History of
Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Geoff Kemp

Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts

Rachel Hammersley

Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts

Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg

Feminist Moments: Reading Feminist Texts

Susan Bruce and Katherine Smits

Liberal Moments

Reading Liberal Texts

Edited by Ewa Atanassow And Alan S. Kahan

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Contents

Ewa Atanassow is Junior Professor of Political Thought at Bard College Berlin. Her research focuses on questions of nationhood and democratic citizenship in the liberal tradition of political thought, with an emphasis on Tocqueville. She is the co-editor (with Richard Boyd) of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy (2013).

Roger Berkowitz is Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College and Associate Professor of Political Studies, Philosophy and Human Rights at Bard College. He is the author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition (2005) and the co-editor of Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2009). He edits HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center and is co-editor of the forthcoming essay collection Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendts Denktagebuch .

Reinhard Blomert is Editor-in-Chief of Leviathan , the Berlin social science quarterly. He has published extensively in the area of history and sociology of economics. He is the author of John Maynard Keynes (2007) and Adam Smith s Reise nach Frankreich (2012).

Nicholas Capaldi is Legendre-Soule Distinguished Chair of Business Ethics at Loyola University, New Orleans. He is the author of Humes Place in Moral Philosophy (1986), John Stuart Mill (2005) and Liberty and Equality in Political Economy (2016).

Emmanuelle de Champs is Professor of British Civilisation at the University of Cergy-Pontoise and an intellectual historian. She has widely published on Bentham and classical utilitarianism. Her latest book, Enlightenment and Utility, Bentham in France, Bentham in French , was published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press.

Aurelian Craiutu is Professor of Political Theory at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published extensively on modern French political thought exploring its tradition of political moderation from Montesquieu and Guizot to Tocqueville and Aron. His most recent book is Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes (2016).

George Crowder is Dean of the School of Social and Policy Studies and Professor of Political Theory, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. His books include Liberalism and Value Pluralism (2002), Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism (2004) and The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin (co-edited with Henry Hardy, 2007).

Joshua Derman is Associate Professor of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the author of Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought: From Charisma to Canonization (2012).

Nouh El Harmouzi is Director of the Arab Center for Scientific Research and Humane Studies and University Professor at Ibn Toufail University, Morocco. He is the author of Islamic Foundations of a Free Society (2016); The Causes of the Failure of the Arab World (2012) in Arabic; and The Underdevelopment in the Arab Muslim Countries (2011) in French.

Robert Neil Harris tutors at New College and lectures in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Oxford and is a visiting scholar in philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. He specializes in nineteenth-century Russian intellectual history. His publications include Granovsky, Herzen and Chicherin: Hegel and the Battle for Russias Soul, in Hegels Thought in Europe: Currents, Crosscurrents and Undercurrents , ed. Lisa Herzog (2013); Alexander Herzen: Writings on the Man and his Thought, in A Herzen Reader , ed. and trans. K. Parth (2012); Society and the Individual: State and Private Education in Russia during the 19th and 20th Centuries, in Politics, Modernisation and Educational Reform in Russia from Past to Present , ed. David Johnson (2010).

Ivn Jaksi is Director of the Santiago Program of the Bing Overseas Studies Program, Stanford University. He is the author of Academic Rebels in Chile: The Role of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics (1989), Andrs Bello: Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (2001), The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880 (2007) and numerous edited, co-edited or co-authored books.

Jeremy Jennings is Head of the School of Politics and Economics at Kings College London. He has published extensively on the history of political thought in France and is now completing a book entitled Travels with Tocqueville.

Edwige Kacenelenbogen has taught political science at Sciences Po (Menton and Aix-en Provence), as well as economics at La Sorbonne/Paris 1, the International University of Monaco and the University of Nice. She now works for various firms specializing in strategy and organizational consulting. She is the author of Le nouvel idal politique (2013), which received the Raymond Aron prize.

Alan S. Kahan is Professor of British Civilization at the Universit de Versailles/St. Quentin and author of the books Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls; Mind vs. Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism; Alexis de Tocqueville; Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage; Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville. He is the translator of Tocquevilles The Old Regime and the Revolution and Benjamin Constants Commentary on Filangieris Work .

James Kloppenberg is Charles Warren Professor of American History. He is the author of Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought , 1870-1920 (1986); T he Virtues of Liberalism (1998); Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition (2nd edn, 2011); Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and AmericanThought (2016); and two co-edited books, A Companion to American Thought (1995) and The Worlds of American Intellectual History (2017).

Catherine Larrre is Professor of Philosophy emerita at the University of Paris I/Panthon Sorbonne. She is the author, among other works, of Actualit de Montesquieu (1999), Economics and Commerce in Montesquieus Human Science, Essays on the Spirit of the Laws , ed. David W Carrithers, Michael A. Mosher and Paul A. Rahe (2001) and Montesquieu et le doux commerce:un paradigme du libralisme? Cahiers dHistoire , Revue dhistoire critique. Les libralismes en question, XVIIIe-XXIe sicles , no. 123, AprilJune 2014, pp. 2138.