Portside

Reviewer Kidd considers a new history of the idea of liberty by one of the UK's most esteemed political philosophers.

How modern literary criticism came to be – with a little help from TS Eliot, FR Leavis, Raymond Williams and others.

This book, writes reviewer Tebble, "not only gives an account of the different meanings that have been ascribed to liberalism and evoked in its uses." It also "recovers some of those meanings that have been eclipsed, distorted and eroded."