A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

by Adam Gopnik

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'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMES

The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time

Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of faith in liberal institutions and, even worse, in liberal thought.

A Thousand Small Sanities is a manifesto rooted in the lives of people who invented and extended the liberal tradition. Taking us from Montaigne to Mill, and from Middlemarch to the civil rights movement, Adam Gopnik argues that liberalism is not a form of centrism, nor simply another word for free markets, nor merely a term denoting a set of rights. It is something far more ambitious: the search for radical change by humane measures. Gopnik shows us why liberalism is one of the great moral adventures in human history--and why, in an age of autocracy, our lives may depend on its continuation.

  • ISBN10 1529401577
  • ISBN13 9781529401578
  • Publish Date 16 May 2019 (first published 14 May 2019)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 May 2022
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Quercus Publishing
  • Imprint riverrun
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English