Date: 26–30 January
Time: 11.15 am
Full Price: R270,00 Staff: R135,00 Reduced: R70,00
The Liberal Predicament
Presented by Dr Kenneth Hughes, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Cape Town
With the fall of communism and the fraying of conservatism, it seems that the only one of the three traditional major Western political philosophies left standing is liberalism. Yet, in many parts of the world, liberalism is also not in good shape. Was it ever different? The great liberal thinkers were often ‘men in dark times’. This course will attempt to throw some light on the liberal predicament by sketching aspects of the history of liberal thought and the development of liberal politics in a number of different countries.
LECTURE TITLES
- From Locke to The Federalist: liberalism and the Enlightenment in the 18th century.
- de Tocqueville to Halévy: liberalism under the shadow of the French Revolution.
- Max Weber and the tragedy of Germany’s lost liberalism.
- Liberalism takes wings: Scandinavia, Italy, Spain and the Americas.
- Dilemmas of contemporary liberalism: liberalism, socialism and nationalism at home and abroad.
- da Ruggiero, G. History of European Liberalism. Translated by Collingwood, R.G. Beacon Press, 1964.
- Brogan, H. Alexis de Tocqueville. Profile, 2006.
- Stern, F. The Failure of Illiberalism. Columbia University Press, 1992.
- Merquior, J.G. Liberalism, Old and New. Twayne Publishers, 1991.
- Lipton, M. Liberals, Marxists and Nationalists. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- de Tocqueville, A. The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution. Translated [from the French] by Stuart Gilbert; with an introduction by Hugh Brogan. Fontana, 1966.
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