Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Montesquieu Diana Shaub (Loyola University Maryland, USA) -- 2. Mme de Stael Aurelian Craiutu (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) -- 3. Benjamin Constant Helena Rosenblatt (The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) -- 4. Jeremy Bentham Emmanuelle de Champs (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France) -- 5. James Madison Colleen Sheehan (Villanova University, USA) -- 6. Alexis de Tocqueville Ewa Attanasow (Bard College Berlin, Germany) -- 7. Abraham Lincoln Ralph Lerner (University of Chicago, USA) -- 8. Alexander Herzen Edward Acton (University of East Anglia, UK) -- 9. John Stuart Mill Nicholas Capaldi (Loyola University, New Orleans, USA) -- 10. T. H. Green John Morrow (University of Auckland, New Zealand) -- 11. Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Fawwaz Trabouli (American University of Beirut, Lebanon) -- 12. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Iván Jaksic (Stanford University, USA) -- 13. Ibrahim Sinasi and Namik Kemal H. O. Ozavci (Utrecht University, Netherlands) -- 14. Jacob Burckhardt Alan Kahan (Université de Versailles/St. Quentin-en-Yvelines, France) -- 15. Max Weber Peter Ghosh (University of Oxford, UK) -- 16. John Maynard Keynes Rheinhard Blomert (Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) -- 17. John Dewey Alan Ryan (Princeton University, USA) -- 18. Hu Shih Sor-Hoon Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) -- 19. Hannah Arendt Roger Berkowitz (Bard College, USA) -- 20. F. A Hayek Edwige Kacenelenbogen (Sciences Po Aix, France) -- 21. Maruyama Masao Reiji Matsumoto (Waseda University, Japan) -- 22. Isaiah Berlin George Crowder (Flinders University, Australia) -- 23. John Rawls Michael Rosen (Harvard University, USA) -- 24. Czeslaw Milosz Peter Baehr (Lingnan University, Hong Kong) -- Bibliography -- Index.

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