Liberal Philosophy

Anthony Arblaster, The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism (Blackwell, Oxford, 1984)

Richard Bellamy, Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise (Routledge, London, 1999)

David Boaz, The Libertarian Reader (The Free Press, New York, 1997)

Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty (George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1941)

Phyllis Doyle, A History of Political Thought (Jonathan Cape, London, 1949)

Amy Gutmann, Liberal Equality (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980)

T. A. Jackson, Trials of British Freedom (Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, London, 1940)

J. G. Merquior, Liberalism: Old and New (Twayne Publishers, Boston, 1991)

Ernest Rhys (ed.), The Growth of Political Liberty: A Source Book of English History (J. M. Dent, London, 1921)

Helena Rosenblatt, The Lost History of Liberalism (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2018)

Conrad Russell, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Liberalism (Duckworth, London, 1999)

Richard Ashcraft, Revolutionary Politics and Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1986)

Ernest Barker, Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume and Rousseau (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1953)

Reed Browning, Political and Constitutional Ideas of the Court Whigs (Baton Rouge, 1982)

René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) (Penguin Books, London, 2000)

René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy (1644) (Penguin Books, London, 2000)

David L. Jacobson (ed.), The English Libertarian Heritage (Fox & Wilkes, San Francisco, 1965; reprinted 1994)

John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (1690) (Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc., Indianapolis, 1952)

Anthony Kelbrook, Locke: Plain Texts From Key Thinkers (Parma Books, London, 1997)

Geraint Parry, John Locke (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1978)

Ernest Rhys, The Growth of Political Liberty (J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1921)

Vere Chappell, The Cambridge Companion to Locke (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994)

John Dunn, The Political Thought of John Locke (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969)

John Milton, Areopagitica (1644)

Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen (eds), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002)

Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen (eds), Freedom and the Construction of Europe, 2 vols. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013)

David Wootton (ed.), Divine Right and Democracy: An Anthology of Political Writing in Stuart England (Penguin, London, 1986)

George Rudé, Wilkes and Liberty: A Social Study of 1763 to 1774 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1962)

Andrew Sharp, The English Levellers (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998)

Larry Siedentop, Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism (Penguin Books, 2015)

David L. Jacobson, The English Libertarian Heritage (Fox & Wilkes, San Francisco, 1994)

George Saintsbury, Political Pamphlets (Percival and Co., London, 1892)

Isaac Kramnick (ed.), The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1995)

David Hume and Tom L. Beauchamp (ed.), An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999)

Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995)

Thomas Paine, Paine’s Political Writings During the American and French Revolutions (Watts and Co., London, 1909)

Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vols. (George Bell, London, 1892 [orig. pub. 1776])

William Thomas, The Philosophic Radicals (Oxford, 1979)

Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution (Thomas Nelson, London, 1867)

Ernest Barker, Political Thought in England from 1848 to 1914 (London, 1950)

Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Fallacies (R. J. Deachman, Ottawa, 1934)

Frédéric Bastiat, Selected Essays on Political Economy (Foundation for Economic Education, New York, 1995), introduction by F. A. Hayek

Frédéric Bastiat, Fallacies of Protection: Being the Sophismes Économiques of Frédéric Bastiat, trans. Patrick James Stirling, introductory note by H. H. Asquith (Cassell & Company Ltd for the Cobden Club, London, 1909)

Jeremy Bentham, A Fragment on Government and an Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1948 [1789])

Ross Harrison, Bentham (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1983)

D. J. Manning, The Mind of Jeremy Bentham (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1968)

Bhikhu Parekh, Bentham’s Political Thought (Croom Helm, London, 1973)

Crane Brinton, English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1949)

J. W. Burrow, Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988)

James E. Crimmins, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism (Bloomsbury, London, 2017)

James E. Crimmins, Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the Critique of Religion in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990)

J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams, Utilitarianism: For and Against (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973)

W. L. Davidson, Political Thought in England: The Utilitarians from Bentham to J. S. Mill (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1944)

James Mill, An Essay on Government (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1955)

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1905/1932)

Henry George, Protection or Free Trade (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London, 1932)

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (Hogarth Press, London, 1953)

Henry George, The Science of Political Economy (Henry George Foundation of Great Britain, London, 1932)

A. C. Auchmuty (ed.), The Economics and Philosophy of Henry George, 1839–1897 (Land & Liberty Press Ltd, London, 1980)

G. E. Fasnacht, Acton’s Political Philosophy (Hollis and Carter, London, 1952)

T. H. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation (Longmans, London, 1886 [1941 ed.])

T. H. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986)

T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1890)

W. H. Fairbrother, The Philosophy of Thomas Hill Green (Methuen & Co., London, 1896)

Élie Halévy, The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism (Faber & Faber, London, 1928)

Herbert Spencer, Education: Intellectual, Moral and Physical (Williams and Norgate, London, 1893)

Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects (J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1914)

John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical and Historical, vol. 3 (Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, London, 1867)

John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, 8th ed. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1911 [1843])

John Stuart Mill and R. B. McCallum (ed.), On Liberty and Considerations on Representative Government (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1946)

John Stuart Mill and Tom Crisp (ed.), Utilitarianism (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001 [1861])

John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill, The Subjection of Women (London, 1869)

John Stuart Mill, Three Essays on Religion (Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1874)

John Stuart Mill and A. O. J. Cockshut (ed.), Autobiography (Ryburn Publishing, Halifax, 1992 [1873])

John Stuart Mill and Anthony Kelbrook (ed.), Plain Texts from Key Thinkers (Parma Books, London, 1997)

Bernard Semmel, John Stuart Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1984)

John Cunningham Wood, John Stuart Mill: Critical Assessments (Routledge, London, 1988), 4 vols.

Ronald Fletcher, John Stuart Mill: A Logical Critique of Sociology (Michael Joseph, London, 1971)

F. W. Garforth, Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980)

F. A. Hayek, John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor: Their Friendship and Subsequent Marriage (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, London, 1969)

Peter Radcliff, Limits of Liberty: Studies of Mill’s “On Liberty” (Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, CA, 1966)

Pedro Schwartz, The New Political Economy of J. S. Mill (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1968)

Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Liberty and Liberalism: The Case of John Stuart Mill (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974)

John Morley, On Compromise (Watts, London, 1933; reprint of rev. 1921 ed.)

Andrew Reid (ed.), Why I Am a Liberal: Being Definitions and Personal Confessions of Faith by the Best Minds of the Liberal Party (Cassell & Company, London, n.d. [c.1886])

Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (John Murray, London, 1877)

Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (IEA Health and Welfare Unit, London, 2nd impression, 1997), foreword by Lord Harris of High Cross

Richard Acland, The Next Step (The Author, Exeter, 1974)

Isaiah Berlin and Henry Hardy (ed.), Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (Pimlico, London, 2003)

Isaiah Berlin and Henry Hardy (ed.), Liberty (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002)

Michael Ignatieff, Isaiah Berlin: A Life (Chatto & Windus, London, 1998)

William Beveridge, Why I Am a Liberal (Herbert Jenkins, London, 1945)

William Beveridge, Voluntary Action: A Report on Methods of Social Advance (London, 1948)

Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History (G. Bell and Sons, London, 1959)

John Button, The Radicalism Handbook (Cassell, London, 1995)

Henry Carter, Liberty and Authority in the Modern World (The Merttens Lecture Committee, London, 1939)

Ralf Dahrendorf, Homo Sociologicus (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1973)

Ralf Dahrendorf, The New Liberty (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1975)

Ralf Dahrendorf, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (Times Books, New York, 1990)

Michael Freeden, The New Liberalism: An Ideology of Social Reform (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986)

Anthony de Jasay, Choice, Contract, Consent: A Reinstatement of Liberalism (Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 1991)

G. C. Field, Pacifism and Conscientious Objection (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1945)

Roger Fulford, The Liberal Case (Penguin, London, 1959)

Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2018)

J. K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1958)

J. K. Galbraith, The Affluent Society, 3rd ed. (Andre Deutsch, London, 1977)

J. K. Galbraith, The Liberal Hour (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1960)

J. K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State (Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1967)

J. K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty (Book Club Associates, London, 1977)

Leonard T. Hobhouse, Liberalism and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994)

John E. Owen, L. T. Hobhouse: Sociologist (Nelson, London, 1974)

J. A. Hobson, The Psychology of Jingoism (London, 1901)

John Allett, New Liberalism: The Political Economy of J. A. Hobson (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1981)

Jules Townshend, J. A. Hobson (London, 1990)

C. E. M. Joad, Liberty Today (Watts & Co., London, 1934)

David Graham and Peter Clarke, The New Enlightenment: The Rebirth of Liberalism (Macmillan, London, 1986)

John Gray, Liberalisms: Essays in Political Philosophy (Routledge, London, 1989)

John Gray, Two Faces of Liberalism (London, 2000)

John Gray, Liberalism, 2nd ed. (Open University Press, Buckingham, 1995)

John Gray, After Social Democracy: Politics, Capitalism and the Common Life (Demos, London, 1996)

John Gray, Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern (Faber & Faber, London, 2004)

John Gray, The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2023)

Peter Hain (ed.), Community Politics (John Calder, London, 1976)

Gaetano Pecora, The Anomalous Liberalism of Friedrich August von Hayek (Rubbettino / European Liberal Forum, Rome, 2014)

Patrick Joyce, Liberalism and the Modern City (Verso, London, 2003)

T. F. Kinloch, Six English Economists, 3rd ed. (Gee & Co., London, 1941)

Stephen Koss, Nonconformity in Modern British Politics (B. T. Batsford, London, 1975)

J. R. Lucas, Democracy and Participation (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1976)

J. D. Mabbott, The State and the Citizen, 9th impression (Hutchinson & Co., London, 1963)

D. J. Manning, Liberalism (J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1976)

David Marquand, The Progressive Dilemma (London, 1992 [1st ed.])

David Marquand, The Progressive Dilemma (London, 1999 [2nd ed.])

David Marquand, The Decline of the Public: The Hollowing Out of Citizenship (Polity, Cambridge, 2004)

Eugene F. Miller, Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty: An Account of Its Argument (Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 2010)

Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, AL, 2008 [orig. 1949])

Jan Narveson and James P. Sterba, Are Liberty and Equality Compatible? (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010)

Michael Novak, Morality, Capitalism and Democracy (IEA Health and Welfare Unit, London, 1991)

Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Blackwell, Oxford, 1974)

Robert S. Pollard, Conscience and Liberty (George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1940)

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1971)

John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 2nd ed. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999)

Thom Brooks and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), Rawls’s Political Liberalism (Columbia University Press, New York, 2015)

Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, vol. 1: 1872–1914 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1967)

Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, vol. 2: 1914–1944 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1968)

Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, vol. 3: 1944–1967 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1969)

Thom Weidlich, Appointment Denied: The Inquisition of Bertrand Russell (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2000)

Bertrand Russell, Authority and the Individual (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1949)

Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1949)

J. E. Thomas and Kenneth Blackwell (eds.), Russell in Review (Samuel Stevens, Hakkert & Company, Toronto, 1976)

Massimo Salvadori, Liberal Democracy: An Essay on Liberty (Pall Mall Press, London, 1958)

Massimo Salvadori, Education for Liberty: A Few Considerations (Pall Mall Press, London, 1957)

Herbert Samuel, Liberalism: An Attempt to State the Principles and Purpose of Contemporary Liberalism in England (Grant Richards, London, 1902)

Viscount Samuel, Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy (Penguin, London, 1937)

Viscount Samuel, Belief and Action: An Everyday Philosophy, rev. ed. (Pan Books, London, 1953)

Viscount Samuel, Practical Ethics (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1935)

Viscount Samuel et al., Spires of Liberty (Herbert Joseph Ltd, London, 1948)

Hugh Sellon, Democracy and Dictatorship (Lovat Dickson Ltd, London, 1934)

Reginald A. Smith, A Liberal Window on the World (Herbert Joseph Ltd, London, n.d.)

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (The Bodley Head, London, 2017)

Lucas Swaine, The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism (Columbia University Press, New York, 2006)

George Watson (ed.), The Unservile State: Essays in Liberty and Welfare (Allen & Unwin, London, 1957)

George Watson (ed.), Radical Alternative: Studies in Liberalism by the Oxford Liberal Group (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1962)

Robert Paul Wolff, The Poverty of Liberalism (Beacon Press, Boston, 1968)

Richard Bellamy, Liberalism and Pluralism (Routledge, London, 1999)

Anna Bousfield, The Relationship between Liberalism and Conservatism (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1999)

Neville Brown, The Bounds of Liberalism: The Fragility of Freedom (Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2014)

Mark Carney, Value(s): Building a Better World for All (William Collins, London, 2021)

Craig Duncan and Tibor R. Machan, Libertarianism: For and Against (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2005)

Ian Dunt, How to Be a Liberal (Canbury Press, Kingston upon Thames, 2020)

Edmund Fawcett, Liberalism: The Life of an Idea (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2014)

Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay (Profile Books, London, 2014)

Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2022)

Paul Hindley and Benjamin Wood (eds.), When We Speak of Freedom: Radical Liberalism in an Age of Crisis (Beecroft Publications, Leeds, 2025)

Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Liberal Solidarity: The Political Economy of Social Democratic Liberalism (Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2021)

Kishan Kumar, The Idea of Englishness: English Culture, National Identity and Social Thought (Ashgate, Farnham, 2015)

Paul Kelly (ed.), Multiculturalism Reconsidered (Polity Press, Cambridge, 2002)

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2019)

Glen Newey, After Politics: The Rejection of Politics in Contemporary Liberal Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2001)

Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Penguin, London, 2010)

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2018)

Robert R. Sullivan, Liberalism and Crime: The British Experience (Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2000)

James Traub, What Is Liberalism? (Basic Books, New York, 2019)

Dirk Verhofstadt, The Liberal Canon: The Foundations of Liberalism (European Liberal Forum, Brussels, 2020)

Callum Williams, The Classical School: The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives (The Economist Books, London, 2021)

Douglas F. Williams, Truth, Hope, and Power: The Thought of Karl Popper (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1989)

Alan Wolfe, The Future of Liberalism (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2009)

Alexander Zevin, Liberalism at Large (Verso, London, 2021)