自由主义及其他著作

　　本书囊括了所有著名的经典原著，但与此同时，它又扩展了传统的评价尺度，以便能够纳入范围广泛、不那么出名的作品。每一本书都有一个评论性的导言，加上历史年表、生平梗概、进一步阅读指南，以及必要的词汇表和原文注解

　　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.