The new liberalism and the rejection of utilitarianism

Weinstein, David

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“…However, even as Hobhouse acknowledged the capacity of non-whites to develop their ‘personality’, he held that it could only be achieved in the context of a liberal community. He envisioned this community as a network of mutual obligations and social bonds, what he called in Liberalism ‘the permanent conditions of social health’ (Hobhouse, 1911a: 108; Weinstein, 2007b: 81–90). These, he asserted, were necessary to ‘create the conditions under which morality can develop’, which in turn enable individual flourishing (Hobhouse, 1911a: 143; 1915: 61–4).…”

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“…Today, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) is best known today as a leading theorist of British new liberalism (Clarke, 1978; Collini, 1979; Freeden, 1978; Simhony and Weinstein, 2001; Weinstein, 2007b). His most enduring work, Liberalism (1911a), sought to synthesise Victorian liberal ideas with the claims of neo-Hegelianism, socialism, and evolutionary theory.…”

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“… 5. Holthaus (2018), Sylvest (2009: 211–16), Weinstein (2007b). Notable exceptions include Bell (2016: 349–54), Schwarz (2011: 322–3), discussed below.…”

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Dissolving the colour line: L. T. Hobhouse on race and liberal empire

Tan

2022

European Journal of Political Theory

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L. T. Hobhouse (1864–1929) is most familiar today as a leading theorist of British new liberalism. This article recovers and examines his overlooked commentary on the concept and rhetoric of race, which constituted part of his better-known project of advancing an authoritative account of liberal doctrine. His writings during and after the South African War, I argue, represent a prominent effort to cast liberalism as compatible with both imperial rule and what he called ‘the idea of racial equality’. A properly liberal empire, he asserted, would dissolve the colour line. This article traces the arguments Hobhouse advanced to make this claim, and explores his motivations for doing so. I contend that Hobhouse drew on the idiom of race as a form of exclusionary rhetoric, to delegitimise rival accounts of liberal empire and to cast his own as properly cosmopolitan. This recovery, I suggest, offers payoffs for our understanding of both Hobhouse's political thought and, more broadly, the uses of ‘race’ in twentieth-century liberalism.

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Dissolving the colour line: L. T. Hobhouse on race and liberal empire

Tan

2022

European Journal of Political Theory

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“…But utilising liberal political philosophy's familiar fundaments for supporting a rejuvenated approach to liberty proved elusive. Disparities between Locke and Mill obstructed the project, casting doubt on the welfare liberals' ability to consistently follow the lead of these philosophers (Weinstein 2001). Locke expects liberty to manifest in structured arenas such as the family and the workplace, which he sees as constituents of natural society.…”

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Liberalism, Pluralism and the Sphere Division in Harold Laski

Gerson

2022

Theoria

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While aligned with John Neville Figgis’ pluralism and Marxist socialism, Harold Laski endorsed liberal and democratic values. However, he synthesised several elements from older liberal theories in a way that diluted the division to which these theories had adhered, namely that between the private and the political spheres. The resulting combination preserves privacy’s status as the realm where individuals are free to pursue their separate ends, but enables essentially private activities based in voluntary social spaces to infuse the space of politics. From this emerged a vision of liberal democracy, in which freedom plays out in multiple private spaces that do not require an autonomous civic arena to complement them. The combination was reached within the contexts of mid-century thinking about the welfare state and a broader project of reformulating democracy by reducing its equation with representation.

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The new liberalism and the rejection of utilitarianism

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Dissolving the colour line: L. T. Hobhouse on race and liberal empire

Dissolving the colour line: L. T. Hobhouse on race and liberal empire

Liberalism, Pluralism and the Sphere Division in Harold Laski

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