Not exact matches
Though the volume is concerned primarily with the major political events in France during Aron's lifetime, it
does describe the intellectual encounters (most notably with Machiavelli, Tocqueville, and Max Weber) and the personal experiences that led Aron to
classical liberalism and a belief in democracy as the answer to the totalitarian temptations of communism and fascism.
Thus Americans liberals still try to achieve the goals of
classical liberalism, but they sometimes
do it through Progressive means.
For one thing, what we call «libertarianism» in USA today was originally called «
classical liberalism» - and AFAIK is still called that in Europe (don't tell any of the modern liberals in America who get allergic reaction from a mention of Mises or Ayn Rand:) If you mean «modern...
Furthermore, it can be argued that this school of thought
did not develop out of
classical liberalism around the turn of the century — when, for instance, the alleged fraudulence of freedom of contract in the labor market is supposed to have been discovered.