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Ryan, Alan, 1940-

The Making of Modern Liberalism Alan Ryan. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012. - ix, 670 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents
Acknowledgments;
Introduction;
Part 1: Conceptual and Practical;
1. Liberalism;
2. Freedom;
3. Culture and Anxiety;
4. The Liberal Community;
5. Liberal Imperialism;
6. State and Private, Red and White;
7. The Right to Kill in Cold Blood: Does the Death Penalty Violate Human Rights?;
Part 2: Liberty and Security;
8. Hobbes’s Political Philosophy;
9. Hobbes and Individualism;
10. Hobbes, Toleration, and the Inner Life;
11. The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau;
12. Locke on Freedom: Some Second Thoughts;
Part 3: Liberty and Progress, Mill to Popper;
13. Mill’s Essay On Liberty;
14. Sense and Sensibility in Mill’s Political Thought;
15. Mill in a Liberal Landscape

ISBN: 9780691148403 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780691163680

LCCN: 2012002052

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Liberalism--History.

LC Class. No.: JC574 / .R93 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 320.51309 RYA