{"product_id":"liberal-moments-alan-s-kahan-9781474251044","title":"Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts","description":"Liberalism today has perhaps more supporters and adversaries than any other political movement. This volume traces liberalism's global ascent through essays about some of the thinkers and actors who participated in its rise and spread. The essays included here present for the first time in one place the geographic and ideological diversity of liberal thought and practice as it developed since the eighteenth century. By exploring thinkers as diverse as Montesquieu, Abraham Lincoln, Jacob Burckhardt, Khayr al-Din, Hu Shih, John Rawls, and Czeslaw Milosz, this volume contributes toward a better understanding of liberalisms past and present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter opens with a critical passage from the author under consideration and explores the author's significance for liberalism. By facilitating a direct encounter with influential authors and texts, the volume serves as an introduction both to the multiple dimensions of liberalism and to reading texts in political thought. By engaging with particular liberal moments, the essays allow readers to create and explore conversations among liberalisms across time and space. It thus encourages a broader and more nuanced understanding of the nature and history of liberalism. Stimulating, accessible and interdisciplinary, \u003ci\u003eLiberal Moments \u003c\/i\u003ewill appeal to students and scholars in the history of political thought, intellectual history and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan S. Kahan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474251048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474251044\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Alan S. Kahan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425276674303,"sku":"9781474251044","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e16a1c61-22c0-4a62-b2f7-133e006363bd.jpg?v=1761538148","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liberal-moments-alan-s-kahan-9781474251044","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}