Hobhouse: Liberalism and Other Writings

A 1994 edition of the classic work of one of the most important modern British liberal theorists.

L. T. Hobhouse (Author), James Meadowcroft (Edited by)

9780521437264, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 January 1994

248 pages
21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.29 kg

L. 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.

Part I. Liberalism: 1. Before liberalism
2. The elements of liberalism
3. The movement of theory
4. 'Laissez-faire'
5. Gladstone and Mill
6. The heart of liberalism
7. The state and the individual
8. Economic liberalism
9. The future of liberalism
Part II. Other Writings: 10. Government by the people
11. The growth of the state
12. The individual and the state
13. Irish nationalism and liberal principle
14. The historical evolution of property, in fact and in idea.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]