Your complimentary articles

You’ve read all of your complimentary articles for this month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please

SUBSCRIBE NOW

If you are a subscriber please sign in to your account.

To buy or renew a subscription please visit Subscriptions.

If you are a print subscriber you can contact us to create an online account.

Books

Modern Europe and the Enlightenment by Rumy Hasan

Terri Murray asks if liberalism is under attack in Europe.

In a June 2019 interview given to the Financial Times, Vladimir Putin brashly declared that the ‘liberal idea’ had outlived its purpose. His evidence for this was that the European public had rejected ostensibly ‘liberal’ policy stances on immigration, open borders, and multiculturalism. In Modern Europe and the Enlightenment (2021), social scientist Rumy Hasan, a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professorial Research Fellow at the Civitas think-tank, rigorously explores whether open borders and multiculturalism really are consonant with liberal democracy and the Enlightenment values that underpin it. He garners abundant evidence to suggest that Putin was bashing a liberal straw man rather than true liberal democracy. But if Hasan is correct, then the entire political boardgame has been misconstrued.

…