Isaiah Berlin's Cold War Liberalism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Müller, Jan-Werner (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series
• Subjects: Peace.; Political philosophy.; Europe-Politics and government.; Conflict Studies.; Political Philosophy.; European Politics.

"Confronting a series of caricatures of Isaiah Berlin, three insightful scholars ponder his relevance for our own time. Was Berlin's 'Cold War liberalism' also an attempt at relentless criticism of liberal complacency? Far from propounding a dogmatic liberalism, did Berlin not ac...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Concepts, Character, and the Specter of New Cold Wars
• 2.Isaiah Berlin and Reinhold Niebuhr: Cold War Liberalism as an Intellectual Ethos
• 3. The Contours of Cold War liberalism (Berlin in General)
• 4. Liberal Pluralism and Common Decency. .