Ewa Atanassow is Junior Professor at Bard College Berlin. She is the co-editor of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy (2013).Alan S. Kahan is Professor of British Civilization at the Université de Versailles/St. Quentin-en-Yvelines, and a member of the faculty at Sciences Po St. Germain-en-Laye, France. He is the author of Mind versus Money: The War Betwen Intellectuals and Capitalism (2010), Alexis de Tocqueville (2010) in Bloomsbury's Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series, Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003) and Aristocratic Liberalism (1992).

• ContributorsSeries Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction – Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. KahanLiberal Beginnings1. Montesquieu – Catherine Larrère2. In Praise of Liberty: Madame de Staël’s Considerations – Aurelian Craiutu3. Benjamin Constant on the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns – Jeremy Jennings4. Jeremy Bentham – Emmanuelle de Champs5. James Madison – Michael P. Zuckert6. Tocqueville’s New Liberalism – Ewa AtanassowLiberalism Confronts the World7. Abraham Lincoln’s Commentary on the “plain unmistakable language” of the Declaration of Independence - Diana Schaub8. John Stuart Mill – Nicholas Capaldi9. Alexander Herzen – Robert Harris 10. T. H. Green – John Morrow11. Sarmiento: Liberalism Between Civilization and Barbarism – Iván Jaksic12. Namik Kemal’s Constitutional Liberalism: Sovereignty, Justice and the Critique of the Tanzimat – H. Ozan Ozavci13. Khayr al-Din Basha – Nouh El Harmouzi14. Jacob Burckhardt’s Dystopic Liberalism – Alan S. KahanLiberalism Confronts the Twentieth Century15. Max Weber – Joshua Derman16. Was Keynes a Liberal – Reinhard Blomert17. John Dewey and Liberal Democracy – James T. Kloppenberg18. Public Ownership and Totalitarianism: Hu Shih’s reflections – Lei Yi19. Hannah Arendt: Power, Action, and the Foundation of Freedom – Roger Berkowitz20. Reading F. A. Hayek – Edwige Kacenelenbogen21. Maruyama and Liberalism in Japan - Reiji Matsumoto22. Liberty and Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Freedom – George Crowder23. Czeslaw Milosz – Michel Maslowski24. John Rawls – Chad Van SchoelandtNotesIndex

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