SPECTRUM

The book opens with a comparative examination of four remarkable minds of the radical right: Michael Oakeshott, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss and Carl Schmitt, and the theoretical and biographical parallels between their conceptions of liberty. In the liberal and s ocial-democratic centre, it looks at John Rawls's concepts of consensus and international law, and the trajectory of Norberto Bobbio . On the Marxist left, it assesses the work of three major historians: Edward Thompson, Robert Brenner and Eric Hobsbawm, and a grea t philol...[Read more]