Margins of Disorder
Subtitle: New Liberalism and the Crisis of European Consciousness
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780791461471
Subjects: Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Political; History; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; United Kingdom, Great Britain; History & Theory - General; Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; 20th century; Liberalism
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.