Download Full eBooks in PDF
Benjamin Constant Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Benjamin Constant book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1988-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521316324
This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000081673240
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. While Constant's fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis O'Keeffe has focused on retaining the 'general elegance and subtle rhetoric' of the original. Sir Isaiah Berlin called Constant 'the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' and believed to him we owe the notion of 'negative liberty', that is, what Biancamaria Fontana describes as "the protection of individual experience and choices from external interferences and constraints." To Constant it was relatively unimportant whether liberty was ultimately grounded in religion or metaphysics -- what mattered were the practical guarantees of practical freedom -- "autonomy in all those aspects of life that could cause no harm to others or to society as a whole." This translation is based on Etienne Hofmann's critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constant's additions to the original work.
Author : Dennis Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134977659
`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.' Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.
Author : Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107402301
Professor Rosenblatt presents a study of Benjamin Constant's intellectual development into a founding father of modern liberalism, through a careful analysis of his evolving views on religion. Constant's life spanned the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise and rule, and the Bourbon Restoration. Rosenblatt analyzes Constant's key role in many of this era's heated debates over the role of religion in politics, and in doing so, exposes and addresses many misconceptions that have long reigned about Constant and his period. In particular, Rosenblatt sheds light on Constant's major, yet much-neglected work, De La Religion. Given that the role of religion is, once again, center-stage in our political, philosophical and historical arenas, Liberal Values constitutes a major revision of our understanding of the origins of modern liberalism.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066437855
This is an essay by Benjamin Constant. In this essay, Constant contrasted two views on freedom: one held by "the Ancients," particularly those in Classical Greece, and the other by members of modern societies. He investigates the dangers of attempting to impose ancient liberty in a modern context, as well as the risks associated with each type of liberty. The danger of ancient liberty was that men, preoccupied with securing their share of social power, might place too little value on individual rights and pleasures. The danger of modern liberty is that we will give up our right to participate in political power too easily, absorbed in the enjoyment of our independence and the pursuit of our particular interests." Constant believes that the two types of liberty must eventually be combined.
Author : Valerie Behiery
Publisher : Editions Hazan, Paris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : 0300210892
A leading Orientalist painter during the Third Republic in France, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the great colourists of the period, and his work evokes the sights he had witnessed during his travels in Spain and Morocco, as well as reflecting the exotic contents of his studio. He was the creator of huge architectural compositions, in which he set fierce-looking Moors and dispassionate odalisques. This book focuses on Benjamin-Constant, offering new and unpublished research into the life of a famous yet today little-known artist and revealing him at work in his studio and at the Paris Salon, teaching at the Academie Julian and amidst the many foreign students and collectors who flocked round him.
Author : Renee Winegarten
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300119251
When they first met in 1794, shortly after the Reign of Terror, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant were both in their twenties, both married, and both outsiders. She was already celebrated and a published writer, whereas he, though ambitious, was unknown. This compelling dual biography tells the extraordinary story of their union and disunion, set against a European background of momentous events and dramatic social and cultural change. Renee Winegarten offers new perspectives on each of the protagonists, revealing their rare qualities and their all-too-human failings as well as the complex nature of their debt to one another. Their passionate and productive relationship endured on and off for seventeen years. Winegarten traces their story largely through their own words--letters and autobiographical writings--and illuminates the deep intellectual and visceral bond they shared despite disparate personalities and gifts. Exploring their relationships with Napoleon and the Bourbons, their different responses to the momentous upheavals of postrevolutionary France, their support of individual liberty with order, and more, the book concludes with an appreciation of de Staël's and Constant's singular contributions to a new literature and to the history of liberty.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : LCCN:64004933
Author : Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139827713
Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. The Cambridge Companion to Constant presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars, offering a necessary overview for anyone who wants to better understand this important thinker. Separate sections are devoted to Constant as a political theorist and actor, his work as a social analyst and literary critic, and his accomplishments as a historian of religion. Themes covered range from Constant's views on modern liberty, progress, terror, and individualism, to his ideas on slavery and empire, literature, women, and the nature and importance of religion. The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 18??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : K. Steven Vincent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230117105
This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.
Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : OSU:32435016994006
Author : Guy H. Dodge
Publisher : Strange Chemistry
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0807873489
Benjamin Constant's Philosophy of Liberalism: A Study in Politics and Religion
Author : Stephen Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 0300030835
Author : Cecil Patrick Courtney
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0900547766