By Avital Simhony, D. Weinstein
The "New Liberalism" of the past due nineteenth/early 20th century is explored during this unique number of essays by way of top students. This missed strand of the liberal culture demonstrates that instead of being irreparably individualist, liberalism can accommodate group in addition to rights and liberty. those essays supply interesting insights into present debates within the liberal culture and may be of significant curiosity to scholars and students of political conception and the background of political proposal.
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The relational organicism of new liberals, like their emphasis on the cultivation of individuality, shows just how much new liberals recast liberalism from within the conceptual parameters of the liberal tradition itself. The new liberals learned to say on their own what contemporary liberals have had to be admonished into saying. The essays Michael Freeden's "Liberal Community: An Essay in Retrieval" introduces our collection. Setting the tone for the essays which follow his, Freeden urges us to question our provincial assumptions about the identity of liberalism given that the new liberalism was no less comrnu203-6; Simhony, "Idealist Organicism," 519-23.
24 In his more pessimistic moments he was unable to ignore the divide between the ethical and the sociological. For although a notion of complete ethical development could be conceived as form rather than specific content - as the fulfillment of the mutually compatible aspects of personality - the historical process, according to Hobhouse, shuddered and stumbled. Hobhouse was after all no Hegelian, neither in his assessment of the political consequences of Idealist theory nor in his personal, war-induced, abhorrence of German philosophy.
Conclusion Regrettably, the new liberalism is too often treated by contemporary liberals, insofar as it is treated at all, as some kind of aberration, as an 52 Alan Ryan, John Dewey (New York: W. W. , 1995), p. 12. 53 Taking the new liberalism seriously, we believe, is a liberal task long overdue. To be sure, we do not believe that the non-individualist liberalism of the new liberals is the "true" or "authentic" liberalism; we do not claim that it is the "real" mainstream of the liberal tradition.