The Political Theory Review

Episode 102: Joshua Cherniss - Liberalism in Dark Times

May 23, 2022

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Camus and Berlin's Approach to Politics

04:54

The History of Political Thought and Political Ethics

05:08

Liberals and Anti-Liberals - Part of What These Thinkers Can Help Sensitize Us To

04:06

Introduction

3min

The History of Political Thought and Political Ethics

5min

The Ruthlessness of Political Actors, a Challenge to Liberals

2min

Is It Morally Impossible to Write Roughshod Over Limits?

5min

Those Are Great Examples From This Era.

2min

Was It Lukas, or Was It Stalinism?

2min

Is There a Strong Connection Between Political Ruthlessness and Imperialism?

5min

The Liberal Response to the Liberal Challenge of Moralized Ruthlessness

2min

Tempered Liberalism Responds to the Challenges of the World

5min

10.

Is There a Lock in Madisonian Liberalism?

2min

11.

The Importance of Character Formation in the 20th Century

5min

12.

What's the Significance of Max Weber?

3min

13.

What Is the Goal of Politics?

5min

14.

The Ethics of Responsibility

3min

15.

Weber's Definition of Politics Is Morally Neutral

3min

16.

The Institutional and the Ethical Dimension of Politics

5min

17.

Veybrol and the German Tradition

2min

18.

Veybrol and Camus and the Influence of Nietzsche in the Book

4min

19.

The Limits of Political Action

2min

20.

Camus's Early Philosophy Absurdism

2min

21.

I Think There Is More to Honor in Humanity Than to Despise

4min

22.

Isaiah Berlin and Raymond Aron and Reinhold Nieber

2min

23.

Are You Trying to Strike a Balance Between Weber and Camus?

4min

24.

Camus and Berlin's Approach to Politics

5min

25.

Is There a Relevance of These Thinkers for the Present?

2min

26.

Liberals and Anti-Liberals - Part of What These Thinkers Can Help Sensitize Us To

4min

27.

The Importance of a Certain Kind of Liberal Political Leadership

4min

A conversation with Joshua Cherniss about his recent book "Liberalism in Dark Times: the Liberal Ethos in the Twentieth Century" (Princeton UP).

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