Benjamin Constant S Philosophy Of Liberalism

Author : Guy H. Dodge
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807873496

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Benjamin Constant's Philosophy of Liberalism by Guy H. Dodge Pdf

This first work in English to focus on Constant as a political theorist shows that his thinking was molded by the French Revolution of 1789 and by Napoleon's regime. Constant is identified as the first to recognize Bonapartism as a new form of despotism, arising from the theory of popular sovereignty, which is still the basis for modern Fascist and Communist regimes. His political thought is analyzed within the framework of his philosophy of history, law, ethics, and religion. Originally published in 1980. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Guy Howard Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608219649

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Benjamin Constant's Philosophy of Liberalism by Guy Howard Dodge Pdf

Author : Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107402301

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Liberal Values by Helena Rosenblatt Pdf

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 : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691207193

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An Intellectual History of Liberalism by Pierre Manent Pdf

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 stance to Machiavelli, who, in seeking to divorce everyday life from the pervasive influence of the Catholic church, separated politics from all notions of a cosmological order. What followed, as Manent demonstrates in his analyses of Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Guizot, and Constant, was the evolving concept of an individual with no goals outside the confines of the self and a state with no purpose but to prevent individuals from dominating one another. Weighing both the positive and negative effects of such a political arrangement, Manent raises important questions about the fundamental political issues of the day, among them the possibility of individual rights being reconciled with the necessary demands of political organization, and the desirability of a government system neutral about religion but not about public morals.

Author : Ralph Raico
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Political ethics
ISBN : 9781610163682

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The Place of Religion in the Liberal Philosophy of Constant, Tocqueville, and Lord Acton by Ralph Raico Pdf

Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000081673240

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Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant Pdf

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 : Domenico Losurdo
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781685259

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Liberalism by Domenico Losurdo Pdf

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery. Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieys, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today's politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.

Author : Stephen Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 0300030835

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Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism by Stephen Holmes Pdf

Author : Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691203966

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The Lost History of Liberalism by Helena Rosenblatt Pdf

"The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that has become a rallying cry - and a term of derision - in today's increasingly divided public square. Taking readers from ancient Rome to today, Helena Rosenblatt traces the evolution of the words "liberal" and "liberalism," revealing the heated debates that have taken place over their meaning. In this timely and provocative book, Rosenblatt debunks the popular myth of liberalism as a uniquely Anglo-American tradition centered on individual rights. It was only during the Cold War and America's growing world hegemony that liberalism was refashioned into an American ideology focused so strongly on individual freedoms."--

Author : Nancy L. Rosenblum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674037650

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Another Liberalism by Nancy L. Rosenblum Pdf

Another Liberalism contributes an original perspective to debates about the nature and foundations of liberal thought. In it Nancy Rosenblum describes the dynamic of romanticism and liberalism as one of mutual opposition and reconciliation. She argues that romanticism sees liberalism as cold, contractual, and aloof. And conventional liberal legalism disdains romanticism's longing for all that is personal, unique, and expressive. We learn, however, that romanticism, chastened by its excesses and frustrated by its failures, can "come home" to liberalism. We also learn that liberalism can accommodate individuality and expressivity, reclaiming what it had repressed. Rosenblum creates a typology of romantic reconstructions of liberal thought: heroic individualism, communitarianism, and a new face of pluralism. The author draws on nineteenth--and twentieth--century philosophy and literature: on Thoreau, Humboldt, Constant, Stendhal, and Mill, among others, and on contemporary political theorists for whom romanticism is a source not only of aversion to liberalism but also of resources for reform.

Author : Daniel J. Mahoney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684516698

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Bertrand De Jouvenel by Daniel J. Mahoney Pdf

In his effort to detach the indispensable notion of the common good from its historical identification with the more closed, homogeneous, and static societies of the premodern past, the French political philosopher Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903-87) pointed the way towards a viable conservative liberalism. So argues Daniel J. Mahoney in this compelling introduction to the life and work of Jouvenel, one of twentieth-century France's most profound philosophers and political essayists. Although he vigorously defended the historical achievement of liberal society against its totalitarian critics, Jouvenel also challenged the modern conceit that man is an autonomous being beholden neither to the moral law nor to the humanizing inheritance of the past. Mahoney's study focuses on Jouvenel's three masterworks On Power (1945), Sovereignty (1955), and The Pure Theory of Politics (1963) and on his broader effort to defend civility and social friendship against rationalist individualism and its logical fruit, collectivist politics. Mahoney explores Jouvenel's affinities with and debts to Aristotle, Burke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, and he contrasts Jouvenel's signal theoretical achievements with the twists and turns manifested in his (sometimes questionable) practical political engagements from the 1930s until his death. Mahoney's characteristically engaging appraisal of this important political philosopher, the fifth entry in the Library of Modern Thinkers series, is the first book on Jouvenel to appear in the English language.

Author : Raf Geenens,Helena Rosenblatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139505505

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French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day by Raf Geenens,Helena Rosenblatt Pdf

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 centuries: French political liberalism. In this collaborative volume, a distinguished group of philosophers, political theorists and intellectual historians uncover this unjustly neglected tradition. The chapters examine the nature and distinctiveness of French liberalism, providing a comprehensive treatment of major themes including French liberalism's relationship with republicanism, Protestantism, utilitarianism and the human rights tradition. Individual chapters are devoted to Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Aron, Lefort and Gauchet, as well as to some lesser known, yet important thinkers, including several political economists and French-style 'neoliberals'. French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day is essential reading for all those interested in the history of political thought.

Author : Benjamin Constant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1988-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521316324

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Constant: Political Writings by Benjamin Constant Pdf

This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.

Author : R. Bruce Douglass,Gerald M. Mara,Henry S. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000704747

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Liberalism and the Good by R. Bruce Douglass,Gerald M. Mara,Henry S. Richardson Pdf

First published in 1990. Liberalism and the Good is a collection of critical essays by an inter-disciplinary group of American and English scholars that seeks to address the long-standing problem of the good in light of the most recent developments in liberal theory. With contributions from both liberal apologists and critics who pursue arguments informed by sources as disparate as Nietzsche and Aristotle, it breaks fresh ground in a number of different directions and offers proposals for the future of the discussion.

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199670437

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Liberalism by Michael Freeden Pdf

Michael Freeden explores the concept of liberalism, one of the longest-standing and central political theories and ideologies. Combining a variety of approaches, he distinguishes between liberalism as a political movement, as a system of ideas, and as a series of ethical and philosophical principles.