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.
Inhoudsopgave
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.
Over de auteur
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.
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