Introduction
Part I: Liberal Practices
1. The Idea of a Practice and the Initial Distinction between Liberal and Illiberal Societies
2. The Rule of Law
3. Free Speech
4. Freedom of Association and Movement
5. Economic Freedom
6. Sexual Freedom
Part II: Liberal Values
Introduction
7. The Idea and Value of Freedom
8. The Equality of the Participants
9. Community
10. Liberalism and Human Well-being
Part III: Liberal Theories
Introduction
11. Libertarian Theories
12. Utilitarian Theories of Liberalism
13. Kant's Idea of Freedom as Rational Self-determination
14. Contemporary Theories of Liberalism
Biography
John Charvet is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, UK. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and a Visiting Fellow of the Australian National University, Australia.
"John Charvet’s Liberalism is lively, opinionated, full of examples, and always admirably clear. The route from practices to values to theory takes the reader from actual liberal societies to its inner architecture. Anyone wanting to know what liberalism stands for and why, need look no further than this book." – Jonathan Seglow, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
"This is a lively and original introduction to liberalism. Charvet articulates a distinctive understanding of liberalism as set of practices embedded in modern social life and provides an engaging exploration of the role played by liberal ideas in contemporary political controversies." - Cillian McBride, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
