Liberal Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean —— Late 19th Century until the 1960s

----- 东地中海的自由思想： 从19世纪后期直至20世纪60年代

ISBN: 9789004165489 出版年：2008 页码：335 Christoph Schumann Brill

This volume analyzes liberal thought in the Eastern Mediterranean since the late nineteenth century, highlighting its long-term and ongoing influence, and challenging the conventional wisdom that liberalism has no legitimate place in the region's intellectual discourse. By investigating the activities of diverse institutions, media, and personalities, the authors in this volume examine the liberal ideas and values that emerged during eras of both peace and political turmoil, while recognizing the factors contributing to their decline. Seen from these many perspectives, liberal thought developed not merely from Westernization, but from the interaction between indigenous intellectual critique and political ideology, political experiences and literary imagination, and a mixture of admiration for and resistance to European ideas and political domination.