Abstract
Participants analyze the causes of the decline of liberalism, and devote particular attention to mass psychology and its relationship to democracy. Alexander Rüstow presents his analysis of the sociological problems inherent in traditional, unreformed liberalism, and emphasizes man’s need for social integration which has gradually been lost. Rüstow articulates that a difference exists between Colloquium participants who seek to fundamentally transform liberalism and those who wish to make only small changes to “traditional” liberalism.
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That is to say the industrial proletariat .—Ed.
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A “cheval de renfort”, or cockhorse, is an extra horse added to a stagecoach in order to assist in passing over difficult terrain.—Ed.
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The Stoic school of philosophy established by Zenon.—Ed.
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God or nature, Spinoza’s famous formula that God and nature are interchangeable.
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The term used here is “la réglementation”, an all-encompassing set of rules and controls, not to be confused with the “regulation” that exists in a market economy such as telecommunications “regulations”.—Ed.
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“La politique anti-libérale refers not to one measure, but a whole range of policies; an anti-liberal way of governing, economically and politically.—Ed.
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“Mais tout totalitarisme a une tendance à la liberté”.
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“Coude à coude” in the sense of solidarity shoulder to shoulder, or side by side.—Ed.
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Reinhoudt, J., Audier, S. (2018). Psychological and Sociological Causes, Political and Ideological Causes, of the Decline of Liberalism. In: The Walter Lippmann Colloquium. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65885-8_8
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