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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism (Intelligent Person's Guide Series) (Hardcover)
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Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd (2 Sep 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0715629476
ISBN-13: 978-0715629475
Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 596,308 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Liberalism, like democracy, is a hurrah-word. People as widely apart as Roy Jenkins and Lord Harris, and Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedmann and J.K. Galbraith, all claim to be liberals. But who are really the succesors to that great liberal triumvirate: Locke, Bentham and Mill? In this polemical book, Lord Russell has set for himself the task of defining the true touchstone of that great British institution, liberal philosophy. Lucidly analyzing how it worked in the past, he makes a passionate plea for its continued importance in the modern world. Liberalism couldn't be further removed from colourless pluralism or watered-down socialism. Its belief in individual autonomy is a vital political philosophy that we can only ignore at our peril.