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French liberalism from Montesquieu to the present day /

There is an enduring assumption that the French have never been and will never be liberal. As with all clichés, this contains a grain of truth, but it also overlooks an important school of thought that has been a constant presence in French intellectual and political culture for nearly three centur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Geenens, Raf, 1979-, Rosenblatt, Helena, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • French liberalism, an overlooked tradition? / Raf Geenens, Helena Rosenblatt
  • Two liberal traditions / Larry Siedentop
  • The unity, diversity and paradoxes of French liberalism / Lucien Jaume
  • Was Montesquieu liberal? The Spirit of the Laws in the history of liberalism / Céline Spector
  • The importance of republican liberty in French liberalism / Andrew Jainchill
  • Rethinking liberalism and terror / Stephen Holmes
  • On the need for a Protestant Reformation: Constant, Sismondi, Guizot and Laboulaye / Helena Rosenblatt
  • 'Anti-Benthamism': utilitarianism and the French liberal tradition / Cheryl B. Welch
  • Tocqueville: liberalism and imperialism / Alan S. Kahan
  • War, trade and empire: the dilemmas of French liberal political economy, 1780-1816 / Richard Whatmore
  • Competition and knowledge: French political economy as a science of government / Philippe Steiner
  • Is there a French neoliberalism? / Serge Audier
  • The 'sociological turn' in French liberal thought / William Logue
  • The 'illiberalism' of French liberalism: the individual and the state in the thought of Blanc, Dupont-White and Durkheim / Jean-Fabien Spitz
  • Raymond Aron and the tradition of political moderation in France / Aurelian Craiutu
  • The politics of individual rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort / Samuel Moyn.