Contributors Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Introduction – Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. Kahan Liberal Beginnings 1. Montesquieu – Catherine Larrère 2. In Praise of Liberty: Madame de Staël’s Considerations – Aurelian Craiutu 3. Benjamin Constant on the Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns – Jeremy Jennings 4. Jeremy Bentham – Emmanuelle de Champs 5. James Madison – Michael P. Zuckert 6. Tocqueville’s New Liberalism – Ewa Atanassow Liberalism Confronts the World 7. Abraham Lincoln’s Commentary on the “plain unmistakable language” of the Declaration of Independence - Diana Schaub 8. John Stuart Mill – Nicholas Capaldi 9. Alexander Herzen – Robert Harris 10. T. H. Green – John Morrow 11. Sarmiento: Liberalism Between Civilization and Barbarism – Iván Jaksic 12. Namik Kemal’s Constitutional Liberalism: Sovereignty, Justice and the Critique of the Tanzimat – H. Ozan Ozavci 13. Khayr al-Din Basha – Nouh El Harmouzi 14. Jacob Burckhardt’s Dystopic Liberalism – Alan S. Kahan Liberalism Confronts the Twentieth Century 15. Max Weber – Joshua Derman 16. Was Keynes a Liberal – Reinhard Blomert 17. John Dewey and Liberal Democracy – James T. Kloppenberg 18. Public Ownership and Totalitarianism: Hu Shih’s reflections – Lei Yi 19. Hannah Arendt: Power, Action, and the Foundation of Freedom – Roger Berkowitz 20. Reading F. A. Hayek – Edwige Kacenelenbogen 21. Maruyama and Liberalism in Japan - Reiji Matsumoto 22. Liberty and Value Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin’s Two Concepts of Freedom – George Crowder 23. Czeslaw Milosz – Michel Maslowski 24. John Rawls – Chad Van Schoelandt Notes Index

The Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought series provides close readings of key texts in selected fields of political thought, informed by cutting-edge scholarship. Each volume contains approximately 20 essays, which analyse critical passages from key texts, considering their significance in the political discourse in question and the history of political thought more widely. Introductory and concluding essays address contextual considerations and discuss broader thematic issues. The unique short essay format ensures that volumes cover a wide variety of texts and a significant historical and geographical range. Covering themes such as censorship, revolutionary, feminist and patriarchal thought, conservatism and democracy, the series provides a fresh way of looking at the history of political thought which will appeal to history and politics students and scholars alike.