Louis Hartz is best known for his classic study, The Liberal
Tradition in America. At Harvard University, his lecture course on
nineteenth-century politics and ideologies was memorable. Through
the editorial hand of Paul Roazen, we can now share the experience
of Hartz's considerable contributions to the theory of
politics.
At the root of Hartz's work is the belief that revolution is not
produced by misery, but by pressure of a new system on an old one.
This approach enables him to explain sharp differences in
revolutionary traditions. Because America essentially was a liberal
society from its beginning and had no need for revolutions, America
also lacked reactionaries, and lacked a tradition of genuine
conservatism characteristic of European thought.
In lectures embracing Rousseau, Burke, Comte, Hegel, Mill, and
Marx among others, Hartz develops a keen sense of the delicate
balance between the role of the state in both enhancing and
limiting personal freedom. Hartz notably insisted on the autonomy
of intellectual life and the necessity of individual choice as an
essential ingredient of liberty.
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