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Living with liberalism.(Book Review)
When reflecting on the political options available to us in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, I often say to myself with a certain resignation, "Liberalism--it's all we've got" What I mean, of course, is that for anyone in the modern world who wants a sane and decent political order, the only realistic choice is liberalism in the classic sense--a regime dedicated to individual liberty based on democratic institutions (liberal democracy, in other words), with a social order shaped by mass culture and an economy driven by industrial and technological progress. Those who reject this order entirely--utopian dreamers, nostalgic reactionaries, anarchists--may get credit ...
- Bertrand de Jouvenel's melancholy liberalism.
- Magazine article from: Public Interest ANDERSON, BRIAN C. March 22, 2001 700+ words
...Oakeshott, and Leo Strauss--Bertrand de Jouvenel suffers from relative neglect...rule it today: the arid left-liberalism of analytic philosophers like Ronald...in the age of extremes Bertrand de Jouvenel was born in 1903 into an aristocratic...
- Bertrand de Jouvenel.(Briefly Noted)(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life June 1, 2006 700+ words
BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL by DANIEL J. MAHONEY ISI, 216 pages, $15 Another volume in ISI...College has done a brilliant job of bringing to life the "conservative liberalism" of Jouvenel, the French philosopher and journalist who died in...
- Mahoney, Daniel J. Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the...
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Levine, Alan December 1, 2007 700+ words
MAHONEY, Daniel J. Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity...French philosopher who is morally seriousness. Enter Bertrand de Jouvenel. One of the best Frenchman of whom you've never (or only...
- BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL POLITICAL ECONOMIST
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Associated Press March 3, 1987 700+ words
PARIS - Bertrand de Jouvenel, a political economist and pioneer in economic forecasting, died...of works on American capitalism and socialism in England, Mr. de Jouvenel took an early interest in the United States and Britain, teaching...
- Jouvenal, Bertrand de: Bertrand de Jouvenel.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Biography Wieder, Thomas September 22, 2008 700+ words
Jouvenal, Bertrand de Bertrand de jouvenel. Olivier Dard. Paris: Perrin, 2008. 526 pp. Euro25. Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-1987) was an atypical political thinker. His own itinerary goes from the extreme right (with the collorary of...
- Against Liberalism.
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Anderson, Brian C. January 1, 1998 700+ words
...the contemporary variant of liberalism is at far remove from the earlier, richer, and more modest liberalism of Montesquieu, Tocqueville...Raymond Aron, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and Isaiah Berlin. But...it is the negative task of liberalism to avoid. Were the agenda...
- Latin American liberalism: a mirage?
- Magazine article from: Independent Review Llosa, Alvaro Vargas January 1, 2002 700+ words
...a government of objectives) instead of by a nomocracy (a government of laws)--to apply the formula used by Bertrand de Jouvenel. Heliocentric like the Inca society, which revolved around a Sun god incarnated by the emperor, our societies have circled...
- No "end of history" Pierre Manent's philosophical defense of politics.
- Perspectives on Political Science Mahoney, Daniel J. June 22, 2002 700+ words
...to this revival of French liberalism in a series of books published...the intellectual history of liberalism. He also published a classic...from Montesquieu to Bertrand de Jouvenel, played in the doctrinal...philosophical or political liberalism: unlike some of his prominent...