In this book, Ezequiel Gallo brings together a series of essays, most of them originally written in the 1980s and 1990s, on different theoretical, historical, and historiographical aspects of classical liberalism. As he argues in the prologue, the essays are linked by his interest in distinguishing and understanding the core ideas of a tradition that, by the time of his writing, was neglected by Argentine scholarship while it was experiencing a revival in the North Atlantic world. In this sense, the book’s subject, as well as Gallo’s candid acknowledgment of his sympathy for the ideas of classical liberalism, assures that this book will be received with both interest and debate.
The essays are presented in 15 chapters of uneven depth and length organized in three different sections. Approaching the subject strictly from the perspective of intellectual history, the book’s first and longest section explores key authors and ideas related to...
