Böcker av Maurice Cowling

Describes the relationship between British party politics and the conduct of British foreign policy between 1933 and 1940.

In this volume Maurice Cowling makes a further contribution to understanding the role which Christianity has played in modern English thought, showing the intimacy of the connections between the political, philosophical, literary and religious assumptions that are to be found among the leaders of the English intelligentsia.

Mill and Liberalism was first published in 1963. Initial reactions varied from the uncomprehending to the splenetic. In the intervening quarter-century the intellectual climate has changed as reflected by its greatest exemplar, to warrant fresh consideration.

In this volume Maurice Cowling makes a further contribution to understanding the role which Christianity has played in modern English thought, showing the intimacy of the connections between the political, philosophical, literary and religious assumptions that are to be found among the leaders of the English intelligentsia.

This book suggests ways in which political studies can be rescued from the confusion into which they have fallen in England in the last sixty years and indicates the turns they should take if the gains which have been made in the past ten years are to be extended into the future.