Ciara Luxton

Jan 7, 2025 | booksandideas.net | Thomas Charrayre |Alain Policar |Florent Guénard |Ciara Luxton

Liberalism Against Itself presents itself as a peculiar kind of scholarly study of Cold War liberalism. This current of thought, relatively obscure in France, starts to gain colour when Raymond Aron’s name is mentioned, or perhaps the intellectual opposition to totalitarian regimes after the Second World War. [1] It refers to the combination of a classic-liberal political stance with a commitment to Atlanticism, the latter imposing its strategic and ideological constraints on the former.