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Beschreibung

We are living through a crisis that casts doubt on the idea of progress, the defining trope of liberalism. The concept of progress as the achievement of liberalism developed over time, in relation to changing ideas about time. Understanding skepticism about progress requires us to ask questions about the relationship between liberalism, time, and history.

Drawing on a range of thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls, Liberalism in Time links the history of liberal thought with wider changes in theology, geology, archaeology, and biology. David Williams explores the diverse ways in which liberal thinkers have understood the relationship between liberalism and time, demonstrating that liberal patterns of thought are characterized by temporal paradoxes. Liberal thinkers ostensibly understand liberalism as situated within time and history, but they treat it as timeless when it is convenient.

Reflecting on whether and how liberal thinking about time and history is suitable for the challenges liberalism now faces, Liberalism in Time shows how temporal paradoxes have characterized liberal patterns of thought throughout history.

We are living through a crisis that casts doubt on the idea of progress, the defining trope of liberalism. The concept of progress as the achievement of liberalism developed over time, in relation to changing ideas about time. Understanding skepticism about progress requires us to ask questions about the relationship between liberalism, time, and history.

Drawing on a range of thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls, Liberalism in Time links the history of liberal thought with wider changes in theology, geology, archaeology, and biology. David Williams explores the diverse ways in which liberal thinkers have understood the relationship between liberalism and time, demonstrating that liberal patterns of thought are characterized by temporal paradoxes. Liberal thinkers ostensibly understand liberalism as situated within time and history, but they treat it as timeless when it is convenient.

Reflecting on whether and how liberal thinking about time and history is suitable for the challenges liberalism now faces, Liberalism in Time shows how temporal paradoxes have characterized liberal patterns of thought throughout history.

Über den Autor
David Williams is professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University, and the author of Progress, Pluralism, and Politics: Liberalism and Colonialism, Past and Present.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: Liberalism in Our Times 3

1 Locke’s Times 28

2 Progress and Morality In and Out of Time 47

3 Revolutionary Liberalism 68

4 Progress, Foundations, and the Antiquity of Man 91

5 Evolutionary Liberalism 113

6 The Times of Justice 134

Conclusion: The Past in the Present 159

Index 175

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Reihe: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780228026266
ISBN-10: 0228026261
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Williams, David
Hersteller: McGill-Queen's University Press
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 159 x 236 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: David Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2025
Gewicht: 0,418 kg
Artikel-ID: 134307683

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