Histoire Intellectuelle du Liberalisme

Name: Histoire Intellectuelle du Liberalisme
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ISBN: 9780691029115

ISBN-10: 0691029113

ISBN-13: 9780691029115

Edition: 1996

Authors: Pierre Manent, Rebecca Balinski, Jerrold Seigel

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Highlighting the social tensions that confront the liberal tradition, Pierre Manent draws a portrait of what we, citizens of modern liberal democracies, have become. For Manent, a discussion of liberalism encompasses the foundations of modern society, its secularism, its individualism, and its conception of rights. The frequent incapacity of the morally neutral, democratic state to further social causes, he argues, derives from the liberal stance that political life does not serve a higher purpose. Through quick-moving, highly synthetic essays, he explores the development of liberal thinking in terms of a single theme: the decline of theological politics. The author traces the liberal…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/11/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 146
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Foreword


Preface



Europe and the Theologico-Political Problem



Machiavelli and the Fecundity of Evil



Hobbes and the New Political Art



Locke, Labor, and Property



Montesquieu and the Separation of Powers



Rousseau, Critic of Liberalism



Liberalism after the French Revolution



Benjamin Constant and the Liberalism of Opposition



Francois Guizot: The Liberalism of Government



Tocqueville: Liberalism Confronts Democracy


Conclusion


Notes


Index