Reclaiming Liberalism

“David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalism’s identity and prospects. Should liberalism be democratic, classical, ordo, legalistic, culture-based, market-based, or what? The international crew of authors—from Australia, Canada, China and the USA—draw upon the insights of key historic figures from Locke to Montesquieu to Burke to Dewey to Hayek to Rawls (and of course others, given liberalism’s rich history), and they leave us with a set of liberalisms both in collision and in overlapping agreement. This book is stimulating reading for those engaged with next-generation liberal thought.”

—Stephen R. C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University.

This collection redresses the conceptual hubris and illiteracy that has come to obscure the central presuppositions of classical liberalism - that is, the wresting of epistemic independence from overwhelming concentrations of power, monopolies and capricious zealotries, whether they be statist, religious or corporate in character.

• Classical liberalism
• Liberal tradition
• Enlightenment
• Political economy of liberalism
• Political philosophy of liberalism
• History of liberalism
• Democratic Classical Liberalism
• Ordoliberalism
• Method of Doubt
• Democratic Peace Theory
• Modern freedom
• Totalitarianism

• Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  David F. Hardwick, Leslie Marsh

David Hardwick is Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Paediatrics and was Special Advisor on Planning at the Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia. He has also been Secretary and President of the International Academy of Pathology, the world’s oldest and largest pathology organization. Professor Hardwick is founding co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism series and is a prime mover behind the open access journal Cosmos + Taxis. Professor Hardwick also co-edited Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith.

Leslie Marsh is Senior Researcher with the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia. He is a prime mover behind the journals EPISTEME and Cosmos + Taxis and the Michael Oakeshott Association. He is founding co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism series and has written on social complexity, social epistemology, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of literature—specializing in Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Adam Smith, Herbert Simon, Walker Percy and John Kennedy Toole.

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