Liberalism in Dark Times: The Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Sources, Citations, and Abbreviations -- Introduction. The Vices of Virtue: Liberalism and the Problem of Ruthlessness -- 1. "Squeamishness Is the Crime": Ruthlessness, Ethos, and the Critique of Liberalism -- 2. Between Tragedy and Utopia: Weber and Lukács on Ethics and Politics -- 3. A Just Man: Albert Camus and the Search for a Decent Heroism -- 4. The "Morality of Prudence" and the Fertility of Doubt: Raymond Aron's Defense of a Realist Liberalism -- 5. Against Cynicism and Sentimentality: Reinhold Niebuhr's Chastened Liberal Realism -- 6. "The Courage of . . . Our Doubts and Uncertainties": Isaiah Berlin, Ethical Moderation, and Liberal Ethos -- Conclusion. Good Characters for Good Liberals?: Ethos and the Reconstruction of Liberalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.