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An Intellectual History of Liberalism /
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 conce...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Princeton, N.J :
Princeton University Press,
1996.
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| Edición: | 3rd printing, 1st paperback printing. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- François Guizot : the liberalism of government
- Tocqueville : liberalism confronts democracy.