Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. Dimensions of Toleration
2. The Rise and Division of Christendom
3. From Toleration to Terror
4. The Long Nineteenth Century
5. Total War and Total Government
6. Liberalism Divided
7. The Making of a Post-Liberal Culture
8. The New Normal
9. A Philosophical Afterword

Bibliography
Index

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A sweeping and engaging guide to both the history of liberalism and how we ended up in a post-liberal world.

About the Author

Russell Blackford is a legal and political philosopher and is Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Deputy Editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine and author and editor of many books on philosophy, politics and technology including The Tyranny of Opinion (Bloomsbury, 2019).