The 1880s saw the first emergence of a specifically English version of collectivist and communitarian rhetoric, characterized by an original attempt to reconcile the tradi- tional tenets of radical democratic individualism with recognition of the essential role played by social forces, including the State as an agent of the national conscience and will, in creating the conditions for effective freedom. Anticipating 20th-century New Liberalism, this political discourse was initially catalyzed by the urgent need to provide the supposedly revolutionary legislation of the second Gladstone Government with an ideological rationale that was felt to be missing or inadequate.
England in the Eighteen-Eighties and the Rise of Liberal Collectivism / Tagliaferri, Teodoro. - In: RICERCHE DI STORIA POLITICA. - ISSN 1120-9526. - XXVIII:Fall 2005, Special Issue, AN EPOCHAL SHIFT: STATE, INDIVIDUAL AND POLITICAL CULTURE (1870-1890), edited by Fulvio Cammarano(2025), pp. 145-159. [10.1412/118489]
England in the Eighteen-Eighties and the Rise of Liberal Collectivism
Teodoro Tagliaferri
2025
Abstract
The 1880s saw the first emergence of a specifically English version of collectivist and communitarian rhetoric, characterized by an original attempt to reconcile the tradi- tional tenets of radical democratic individualism with recognition of the essential role played by social forces, including the State as an agent of the national conscience and will, in creating the conditions for effective freedom. Anticipating 20th-century New Liberalism, this political discourse was initially catalyzed by the urgent need to provide the supposedly revolutionary legislation of the second Gladstone Government with an ideological rationale that was felt to be missing or inadequate.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
