Margins of Disorder

New Liberalism and the Crisis of European Consciousness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Traces how progressive liberals in Edwardian Britain responded to contemporary intellectual trends.British liberalism in the period between 1870 and 1930 was a product of an era known for its intellectual crisis. During the late nineteenth century, the cohesion of reason and enlightenment was questioned in fields ranging from psychology, sociology, philosophy, biology, philology, and archaeology. In Margins of Disorder Gal Gerson considers the ways in which progressive Edwardian liberals such as Leonard Hobhouse, John Hobson, and Graham Wallas attempted to address the shift in their period's culture. New liberalism advocated government planning and expanded state services from liberal, rather than socialist, premises, and saw the sense of belonging to a community as a distinct, right-constituting human good. Gerson examines the concepts of mind, society, nature, and culture devised by new liberals over the course of several decades, and argues in favor of viewing them as a coherent stance, relevant to today's debates about the relations between market and welfare, justice and community.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-08-06
Mått160 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt463 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor247
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791461471

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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Liberalism and Modernity 1. Liberalism: Fin de Siècle 2. A Complex Heritage 3. Toward the Comprehensive Part II: Mind and Society: The Psychology of Individuals and Crowds 4. Citizenship and Mind 5. Psychology and Social Policy 6. New Liberal Criticism 7. The Great Society as a Model 8. The Psychology of the Great Society 9. Hobson on the Mind, the Crowd, and Disorder 10. A Century's View of the Mind Part III: Nature: Genetics and Creative Evolution 11. Challenges to the Politics of Nature 12. Purpose in Chaos 13. Immanentism: Hobhouse on Evolution 14. Reclaiming Nature, Losing Nature Part IV: Culture: Ritualism and Functionalism in the Study of Antiquity 15. Antiquity and Modernity 16. Classicists and Progressives 17. Moralizing Ritualism: Robertson and Burns 18. Gilbert Murray on Ritual 19. Francis Cornford on Religion and Philosophy 20. Antiquity to Postmodernity Conclusion: The Endurance of Liberal England Notes Bibliography Index

"The book's greatest virtue is the tale it tells of the encounter between liberal modernism in English social thought and its early postmodern enemies. Gerson succeeds in showing how new liberals tamed the revolt against reason, testifying to liberalism's adaptability and power in relation to socialism and conservatism. If indeed liberalism has become the hegemonic ideology that some claim, then Gerson's book helps us to see why." - David P. Weinstein, Wake Forest University; "I am very pleased with Gerson's willingness to consider the philosophical and political implications of the new liberals' decision to embrace the unruly in a way that maintained an enlightenment commitment to universality and order." - Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College"