Hobhouse: Liberalism and Other WritingsL. T. Hobhouse's Liberalism (1911), which has acquired the status of a modern classic, is the most enduring statement of the political principles which animated British liberal social reformers in the early years of the twentieth century. While written in a popular style, it is actually a theoretical work of some subtlety, combining an historical analysis of the evolution of liberal doctrine with a philosophical discussion of the character of liberal belief, and proposing a reformulation of liberalism which emphasises community, individual welfare rights, and an activist state. This 1994 edition of the work includes a number of his other writings from the same period, and will be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars in politics and the history of political thought. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | vii |
Introduction | ix |
Principal events in the life of L T Hobhouse | xxvii |
Further reading | xxx |
Biographical notes | xxxiii |
Liberalism | 1 |
Before Liberalism | 3 |
The Elements of Liberalism | 10 |
Laissezfaire | 37 |
Gladstone and Mill | 49 |
The Heart of Liberalism | 56 |
The State and the Individual | 67 |
Economic Liberalism | 81 |
The Future of Liberalism | 103 |
Other Writings | 121 |
Government by the People | 123 |
2 Fiscal Liberty | 12 |
4 Social Liberty | 15 |
5 Economic Liberty | 16 |
6 Domestic Liberty | 18 |
7 Local Racial and National Liberty | 19 |
8 International Liberty | 21 |
The Movement of Theory | 24 |
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