![]() If this simplistic version of liberalism is the true story, then it is possible to reach back and find Locke as the father of the whole thing, as many philosophers and historians have.īut this, Rosenblatt argues, is not the true story, certainly not the whole story. To some degree, she holds, this is actually the fault of recent liberals (she blames both Isaiah Berlin and John Rawls for feeding the distorted image). It is a form of hedonism and therefore easy to caricature. That version holds liberalism to be individualistic and focused on rights against the common good. Cloth, $35.00-Rosenblatt's basic thesis is that contemporary attacks on liberalism have succeeded only because the true history of liberalism has been lost, leaving in its stead a facile version of liberalism that is easy to criticize. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2018. The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century. ![]()
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