Liberalism, the happy exception Freedom from fear: an incomplete history of liberalism, byAlan S. Kahan, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2023, $45.00, ISBN: 9780691191287 _Moderate and radical liberalism: the Enlightenment sources of liberal thought_, byNathaniel Wolloch, Leiden, Brill, 2022, $210.00, ISBN: 978900450803-3 [Book Review]

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This essay reviews the main themes and ideas of a couple of recent books on liberalism written by two intellectual historians, Alan S. Kahan and Nathaniel Wolloch.Their books shed fresh light on the internal diversity and complexity of the liberal tradition, especially in relation to the Radical and Moderate Enlightenment as well as the French Revolution. Wolloch and Kahan show that many of the ideas and aims of the Radical Enlightenment ended up being implemented by thinkers who belonged to the tradition of moderate liberalism. The essay also argues that two books offer a timely opportunity to revisit the limits and virtues of liberal principles and respond to their recent critics.

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