Liberalism - Domenico Losurdo

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and
philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a
philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most
illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and
snobbery.

Narrating an intellectual history running from the
eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the
thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville,
Constant, Bentham, and Sieys, revealing the inner contradictions of an
intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on
today's politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns
the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution
of the modern world order.