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Free Download The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism, UK Edition by John Gray
English | September 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 0241554950 | 192 pages | True EPUB | 0.55 MB
‘One of the most important thinkers alive’ The Times

Free Download City of Dignity: Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Sean T. Dempsey
English | December 20, 2022 | ISBN: 0226823768 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 0.7 MB
City of Dignity illuminates how liberal Protestants quietly, yet indelibly, shaped the progressive ethics of postwar Los Angeles.

Free Download Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (Oxford Constitutional Theory) by Michael A. Wilkinson
English | August 10, 2021 | ISBN: 0198854757 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 1.2 MB
This title recounts the transformation of Europe from the post-war era until the Euro-crisis, using the tools of constitutional analysis and critical theory.

Free Download French Liberalism and Imperialism in the Age of Napoleon III: Empire at Home, Colonies Abroad by Miquel de la Rosa
English | February 26, 2022 | ISBN: 3030958876 | 232 pages | PDF | 1.67 Mb
This book explores the interplay between liberalism and imperialism in Second Empire France. By examining the political dimension of imperial expansion and the power of words in shaping public opinion, it sheds light on the ways in which liberal ideas developed in the nineteenth century. In contrast to Britain, French imperialism in the third quarter of the nineteenth century was fostered by a Bonapartist regime that liberals needed to fight in order to build their own political brand. The author argues that the 1860s were not so much a period of ‘liberal empire’ in France as has traditionally been suggested, since liberals were in fact more conveyers of political change rather than supporters of the regime. To demonstrate how French liberals succeeded in configuring an alternative political option, the book explores their attitudes to the expanding colonial empire of Napoleon III in the 1850s and 60s through the analysis of parliamentary debates, the press and published texts. Providing three in-depth case studies on Bonapartist expansion projects in Algeria, Cochinchina and Mexico, the book provides new insights on the foundations of the liberal position on imperialism, and the intellectual outlooks and belief systems that informed these views. Analysing discourses and ideas, as opposed to facts and policies, this book presents a new perspective on the nature of the French Second Empire and illustrates how this shaped a specific liberal political culture in France.

Free Download René González de la Vega, "Tolerance and Modern Liberalism: From Paradox to Aretaic Moral Ideal"
English | ISBN: 1498529062 | 2016 | 250 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Modern liberal societies are submerged in conflict and disagreement. People disagree about almost everything-not only about matters of justice, but also about issues that are more private. They disagree on how to interpret freedom and equality; they disagree and even experience conflict with issues regarding the use of a veil, or children wearing crucifixes in public spaces; they also enter into conflict and disagreement regarding issues such as homosexuality, extramarital sex, drugs, euthanasia, abortion, suicide, and experimentation on animals. All these issues can be understood as moral problems, but we also have disagreements concerning other topics that are unrelated to moral issues.

Free Download The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 037460973X | 192 pages | True EPUB | 0.55 MB
A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions.

Free Download Phil W. Reynolds, "Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 1498590918 | 2019 | 300 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Looking at partisan groups such as the FLN, the Vietcong, and the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, Ouroboros: Understanding the War Machine of Liberalism assesses how they convert their knowledge of self into tactical and strategic advantages that nullify the Clausewitzian advantages in the distribution of military power. Reynolds argues that liberalism has a global transformative mission that requires an ideologically democratic core and an illiberal periphery. By assessing the ouroboros, which sees action as definitive and final, the book explains how it powers the new strategy of preemption that intervenes in the periphery, ostensibly to set up democratic, security-centered adjuncts.

Free Download F. A. Hayek, "Essays on Liberalism and the Economy, Volume 18 (Volume 18) "
English | ISBN: 022678133X | 2022 | 672 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A deft selection of unpublished and little-known works by F. A. Hayek that will serve to enlighten and enliven debates around the ever-changing face of Western liberalism

Free Download Reviving Classical Liberalism Against Populism
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031490738 | 133 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This open access book by Nils Karlson explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists promote autocratization through the deliberate polarization of society. It traces the ideational roots of the core populist ideas and shows that these ideas form a collectivistic identity politics.

Free Download The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CP6B731K | 2023 | 5 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 276 MB
Author: John Gray
Narrator: Lee Goettl
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities. In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of near apoplectic triumphalism in the West: a genuine belief that a rational, liberal, well-managed future now awaited humankind and that tyranny, nationalism, and unreason lay in the past. Since then, so many terrible events have occurred and so many poisonous ideas have flourished, and yet our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations that will somehow dissolve. Hobbes would not be so confident. Filled with fascinating and challenging observations, The New Leviathans is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly. As a species we always seem to be struggling to face the reality of base and delusive human instincts. Might a more self-aware, realistic, and disabused ethics help us?