Reclaiming Liberalism

ΓÇ£David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalismΓÇÖs identity and prospects. Should liberalism be democratic, classical, ordo, legalistic, culture-based, market-based, or what? The international crew of authorsΓÇöfrom Australia, Canada, China and the USAΓÇödraw upon the insights of key historic figures from Locke to Montesquieu to Burke to Dewey to Hayek to Rawls (and of course others, given liberalismΓÇÖs rich history), and they leave us with a set of liberalisms both in collision and in overlapping agreement. This book is stimulating reading for those engaged with next-generation liberal thought.ΓÇ¥
ΓÇöStephen R. C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University.
This collection redresses the conceptual hubris and illiteracy that has come to obscure the central presuppositions of classical liberalism ΓÇô that is, the wrestling of epistemic independence from overwhelming concentrations of power, monopolies and capricious zealotries be they of a state, religious or corporate in character.