The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty A view from Europe [Hardcover]

Joao Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the core pillars of the Free World. Giving a broad overview of the tradition through summaries of the careers and ideas of fourteen of its key thinkers, neglected despite having been tremendously influential in the tradition of liberty, the author engages with current set ideas about the meaning of 'liberal' and 'conservative' to offer an engaging, intellectual case for liberal democracy.

Introduction: Karl Popper, Winston Churchill and The British Mystery

Part I | PERSONAL INFLUENCES

1. Karl R. Popper: The open society and its enemies

2. Ralf Dahrendorf: Liberty and civil society

3. Raymond Plant: Social welfare without class warfare

4. Gertrude Himmelfarb and Irving Kristol: The moral imagination

Part II | COLD WARRIORS

5. Raymond Aron: The opium of the intellectuals

6. Friedrich A. Hayek: The constitution of liberty

7. Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and pluralism

8. Michael J. Oakeshott: The conservative disposition

9. Leo Strauss: Relativism and the crisis of modernity

Part III | ORDERLY LIBERTY

10. Edmund Burke: Liberty and duty

11. James Madison vs.Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Two views of self-government

12. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

Part IV | THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY

13. Winston S. Churchill: The English-Speaking Peoples and the Free World

Part V | POLITICS OF IMPERFECTION: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN

TRADITION OF LIBERTY

14. Limited and accountable Government