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We are living through a crisis that casts doubt on the idea of progress, the defining trope of liberalism. The concept of progress as the achievement of liberalism developed over time, in relation to changing ideas about time. Understanding skepticism about progress requires us to ask questions about the relationship between liberalism, time, and history.
Drawing on a range of thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls, Liberalism in Time links the history of liberal thought with wider changes in theology, geology, archaeology, and biology. David Williams explores the diverse ways in which liberal thinkers have understood the relationship between liberalism and time, demonstrating that liberal patterns of thought are characterized by temporal paradoxes. Liberal thinkers ostensibly understand liberalism as situated within time and history, but they treat it as timeless when it is convenient.
Reflecting on whether and how liberal thinking about time and history is suitable for the challenges liberalism now faces, Liberalism in Time shows how temporal paradoxes have characterized liberal patterns of thought throughout history.
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Liberalism in Our Times 3
1 Locke's Times 28
2 Progress and Morality In and Out of Time 47
3 Revolutionary Liberalism 68
4 Progress, Foundations, and the Antiquity of Man 91
5 Evolutionary Liberalism 113
6 The Times of Justice 134
Conclusion: The Past in the Present 159
Index 175
