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Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (Paperback)
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Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments (Paperback)
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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.
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