自由主義及其他著作

　　本書囊括了所有著名的經典原著，但與此同時，它又擴展了傳統(tǒng)的評價尺度，以便能夠納入范圍廣泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本書都有一個評論性的導言，加上歷史年表、生平梗概、進一步閱讀指南，以及必要的詞匯表和原文注解

　　L. T. Hobhouse's Liberalism （ 1911）， which has acquired the status of a modemclassic， is the most enduring statement of the political principles~which animatedBritish liberal social reformers in the early years of the twentieth century. Whilewritten in a popular style， it is actually a theoretical work of some subtlety，combining an historical analysis of the evolution of liberal doctrine with aphilosophical discussion of the character of liberal belief， and proposing areformulation of liberalism which emphasizes community， individual welfarefights， and an activist state.Students of public policy will find a text advocating measures that later becamecentral to the modem welfare state; students of ideology will discover anambitious attempt to adapt traditional liberal beliet to new circumstances; andcontemporary political theorists will apprehend a liberal variant which contrastssharply with the individualist，value-neutral' forms of liberalism which havebeen popular in recent decades.This new edition of Liberalism includes a number of Hobhouse's other writingsfrom the same period， which help to define its place in the development of hispolitical philosophy.