The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty:
A view from Europe
João Carlos Espada
Table of contents
Introduction: Karl Popper, Winston Churchill and ‘The British Mystery’
Part I | PERSONAL INFLUENCES
1. Karl R. Popper: The open society and its enemies
2. Ralf Dahrendorf: Liberty and civil society
3. Raymond Plant: Social welfare without class warfare
4. Gertrude Himmelfarb and Irving Kristol: The moral imagination
Part II | COLD WARRIORS
5. Raymond Aron: The opium of the intellectuals
6. Friedrich A. Hayek: The constitution of liberty
7. Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and pluralism
8. Michael J. Oakeshott: The conservative disposition
9. Leo Strauss: Relativism and the crisis of modernity
Part III | ORDERLY LIBERTY
10. Edmund Burke: Liberty and duty
11. James Madison vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Two views of self-government
12. Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
Part IV | THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY
13. Winston S. Churchill: The English-Speaking Peoples and the Free World
Part V | POLITICS OF IMPERFECTION: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN
TRADITION OF LIBERTY
14. Limited and accountable Government
15. Two kinds of rationalism
16. Liberty as conversation
Postscript ON BRITAIN AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE MISSING DEBATE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX