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Elie Halevy - Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny (Hardcover)
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Elie Halevy - Republican Liberalism Confronts the Era of Tyranny (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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An intellectual biography of the renowned and influential observer
of the "era of tyrannies" Elie Halevy (1870-1937) was one of the
most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third
Republic. In this densely contextualized biography, K. Steven
Vincent describes how Halevy, best remembered as the historian of
British Utilitarianism and nineteenth-century English history, was
also a persistent, acute, and increasingly anxious observer of
society in a period defined by industrialization and imperialism
and by what Halevy famously called the "era of tyrannies." Vincent
distinguishes three broad phases in the development of Halevy's
thought. In the first, Halevy brought his version of neo-Kantianism
to debates with sociologists and philosophers and to his study of
English Utilitarianism. He forged ties with Xavier Leon, Leon
Brunschvicg, and Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier), life-long
intellectual interlocutors. Together they founded the Revue de
metaphysique et de morale, a continuing venue for Halevy's
reflections. The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent argues, caused Halevy to
shift his focus from philosophy to history and from metaphysics to
politics. He became a philosopher-historian, less interested in
abstract neo-Kantianism and more in real-world action, less given
to rarified debates over truth and more to investigation of how
theories and their applications were situated within broader
political, economic, and cultural movements. World War I and its
destabilizing effects provoked the third phase, Vincent explains.
As he watched reason recede before rabid nationalism and a pox of
political enthusiasms, Halevy sounded the alarm about liberal
democracy's vulnerabilities. Vincent situates Halevy on the
unsteady and narrowing middle ground between state socialism and
fascism, showing how he defended liberalism while, at the same
time, appreciating socialists' analyses of capitalism's negative
impact and their calls for reform and greater economic equality.
Through his analysis of Halevy's life and works, Vincent
illuminates the complexity of the Third Republic's philosophical,
historical, and political thought and concludes with an incisive
summary of the distinctive nature of French liberalism.
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