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An Intellectual History of Liberalism (Paperback, Revised): Pierre Manent

An Intellectual History of Liberalism (Paperback, Revised)

Pierre Manent; Translated by Rebecca Balinski; Foreword by Jerrold E Seigel

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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.

General

Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 1996
First published: August 1996
Authors: Pierre Manent
Translators: Rebecca Balinski
Foreword by: Jerrold E Seigel
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 152
Edition: Revised
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-02911-5
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies
LSN: 0-691-02911-3
Barcode: 9780691029115

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