French political thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville : liberty in a levelled society? /
Annelien de Dijn argues that Montesquieu's aristocratic liberalism has had a continued impact on post-revolutionary France. Highlighting the persistence of a pluralist liberalism that was rooted in the old regime, de Dijn provides a new context in which to read the works of Montesquieu and Alex...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Ideas in context ;
89. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Political thought in eighteenth-century France: the invention of aristocratic liberalism 11
- 2 Liberty and inequality: the royalist discourse 40
- 3 A society of equals: the liberal response 68
- 4 Liberty in a levelled society: Charles Dunoyer, Benjamin Constant, and Prosper de Barante 89
- 5 The new aristocracy: a theme in Restoration liberalism 111
- 6 The danger of democracy: Orleanist liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville 129
- 7 The French predicament: aristocratic liberalism in the Second Empire 155.