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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Moyn, Samuel, author.     Subjects     Liberalism -- 20th century -- Philosophy.     Cold War -- Philosophy.     Intellectuals -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Moyn, Samuel, author.       by title:      Liberalism against i...         MARC Display

Liberalism against itself : Cold War intellectuals and the making of our times / Samuel Moyn. by Moyn, Samuel, author. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023] Subjects Liberalism -- 20th century -- Philosophy.   Cold War -- Philosophy.   Intellectuals -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9780300266214 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0300266219 (hardcover : alkaline paper) Description:  229 pages : portraits ; 23 cm. Contents:  introduction -- Against the Enlightenment : Judith Shklar -- Romanticism and the highest life : Isaiah Berlin -- The terrors of history and progress : Karl Popper -- Jewish Christianity : Gertrude Himmelfarb -- White freedom : Hannah Arendt -- Garrisoning the self : Lionel Trilling -- Epilogue: Why Cold War liberalism keeps failing. Requests:  0 Summary:  "By the middle of the twentieth century, many liberals looked glumly at the world modernity had brought about, with its devastating wars, rising totalitarianism, and permanent nuclear terror. They concluded that, far from offering a solution to these problems, the ideals of the Enlightenment, including emancipation and equality, had instead created them. The historian of political thought Samuel Moyn argues that the liberal intellectuals of the Cold War era--among them Isaiah Berlin, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Karl Popper, Judith Shklar, and Lionel Trilling--transformed liberalism but left a disastrous legacy for our time. In his iconoclastic style, Moyn outlines how Cold War liberals redefined the ideals of their movement and renounced the moral core of the Enlightenment for a more dangerous philosophy: preserving individual liberty at all costs. In denouncing this stance, as well as the recent nostalgia for Cold War liberalism as a means to counter illiberal values, Moyn presents a timely call for a new emancipatory and egalitarian liberal philosophy--a path to undoing the damage of the Cold War and to ensuring the survival of liberalism."--Dust jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Status   Hawaii State Library Acquisitions, SSP in Processing Add Copy to MyList

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