Liberalism
Liberalism and Its History
Author(s): Eric Voegelin, Mary Algozin and Keith Algozin
Source: The Review of Politics, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 504-520
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Liberalism and Its History*
Erie Voegelin
Translated from the German by Mary and Keith Algozin
The taskofsketching history liberalism, of the is though modest, formethodological reasons For the difficult. we standbefore questionofwhether is there evensucha thing liberalism a clearly as as
definablesubject and whetherthissubject,should it not be clearly definable, can have a history. We touch here upon a general methodologicalproblem. Toynbee, for example, opens his great workwiththe questionwhether he England has a history; concludes that the English nation as a society is so closely related to the society of Western civilizationthat one cannot write an English withoutgoing into the entirehistory Westerncivilization. of history
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Author(s): Eric Voegelin, Mary Algozin and Keith Algozin
Source: The Review of Politics, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 504-520
Published by: Cambridge University Press for the University of Notre Dame du lac on behalf of
Review of Politics
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1406338 .
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Liberalism and Its History*
Erie Voegelin
Translated from the German by Mary and Keith Algozin
The taskofsketching history liberalism, of the is though modest, formethodological reasons For the difficult. we standbefore questionofwhether is there evensucha thing liberalism a clearly as as
definablesubject and whetherthissubject,should it not be clearly definable, can have a history. We touch here upon a general methodologicalproblem. Toynbee, for example, opens his great workwiththe questionwhether he England has a history; concludes that the English nation as a society is so closely related to the society of Western civilizationthat one cannot write an English withoutgoing into the entirehistory Westerncivilization. of history
It is in