Taking anti-totalitarianism seriously. The Emergence of the Aronian Circle in the 1970s
Abstract
The twentieth-century revival of liberalism in France was long an uncharted territory for French intellectual historians. The reasons for this are complex but no doubt include France’s particularly ambiguous relationship with this political sensibility and the liberal revival as well as the wider emergence of “neoliberalism” with which it is sometimes associated. As a result, this question has only become an object of serious scholarly enquiry in France over the last twelve years or so.1 Alongside the new French scholarship in this field has also emerged a rising interest in the French liberal revival in Britain and the United States, where intellectual history has been more central to the academy than in France.2