Liberalism as a coherent political tradition is a recent invention of the 1940s-1950s; de-centering liberalism means understanding that it is one tradition among others and that it emerged recently, not that it is transhistorical or inevitable.
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“I was really trying to do in my book was what I would call desentering liberalism. Uh, the liberal tradition, as I try to argue, is really something that's kind of invented in the 1940s and 1950s”
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