What they meant: On Helena Rosenblatt’s "The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century"

Helena Rosenblatt’s The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century is the most recent entry into these debates about the meaning and future of liberalism. Rather than attacking or defending liberalism, however, Rosenblatt offers what she calls a “word history” of liber...

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Main Author: HENDERSON, Christine
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3376
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4633/viewcontent/LostHistory_bkrev_2019_av.pdf
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Summary:Helena Rosenblatt’s The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century is the most recent entry into these debates about the meaning and future of liberalism. Rather than attacking or defending liberalism, however, Rosenblatt offers what she calls a “word history” of liberalism, believing that the best way to understand liberalism is to see “how liberals defined themselves and what they meant when they spoke about liberalism.”