Re-Inventing Western Civilisation: Transnational Reconstructions of Liberalism in Europe in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Niklas Olsen; Hagen Schulz-Forberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443860492 ISBN 13: 9781443860499

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

The volume shows that neoliberalism concerns a tradition carried by a network of people, who understood themselves as liberals (and at times as neoliberals) and who sought to create societies based on individual freedom and a free market economy. It also shows that neoliberalism emerged as a transnational and multilingual phenomenon and that it cannot be reduced to one doctrine or practice. The book will enrich the reader's knowledge of the political-ideological landscapes and developments in various European regions and countries, in addition to transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.

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About the Author:

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor for Global and European History at Aarhus University, where he also co-ordinates the International Studies programme and directs the research project "Towards Good Society: Conceptualising the Social through the Economic since the 1930s". His latest monograph, co-authored with Bo Strath, The Political History of European Integration: The Hypocrisy of Democracy-through-Market, was shortlisted for the European Book Prize 2011. He recently edited Zero Hours: Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginning in the Interwar Period (2013) and A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860-1940 (2014). Niklas Olsen is Assistant Professor at Copenhagen University. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He is currently working on a project on the variants of liberalism in Western Europe from 1945 to 1990. His recent publications include History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck (2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1443860492
• ISBN 13: 9781443860499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Niklas Olsen, Hagen Schulz-Forberg