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Joshua L. Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century

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  1. Albert Camus, “Nobel Prize Address Stockholm, December 10, 1957,” published as an epigraph in David Sprintzen, Camus: A Critical Examination (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988), viii.

  2. Helena Rosenblatt, The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018).

  3. Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 257–314.

  4. Friedrich Meinecke, “Einige Gedanken über Liberalismus,” in Politische Schriften und Reden, ed. Georg Kotowski (Darmstadt: Siegfried Toeche-Mittler Verlag, 1958), 414 ff.

  5. Cornelius Castoriadis, “The Greek Polis and the Creation of Democracy,” in Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy, trans. David Ames Curtis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 119–120.

  6. I draw this phrase from a powerful critique of Max Weber by Stefan Eich and Adam Tooze, “The Allure of Dark Times: Max Weber, Politics, and the Crisis of Historicism,” History and Theory, vol. 56, no. 2 (June 2017), 197–215.

  7. Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo, Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 25.

  8. Brown and Mouffe cited in Vazquez-Arroyo, Political Responsibility, 28.

  9. Vazquez-Arroyo, Political Responsibility, 3.

  10. Seyla Benhabib, “Thinking Without Banisters,” New York Review of Books, vol. LXIX, no. 3 (February 24, 2022), 28.

  11. J.G. Fichte cited in Isaac Nakhimovsky, “Georg Lukács and Revolutionary Realpolitik, 1918–19: An Essay on Ethical Action, Historical Judgment, and the History of Political Thought,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 83, no. 1(January 2022), 66.

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Breckman, W. Joshua L. Cherniss, Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century. Soc 59, 318–321 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00722-y

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