French liberalism from Montesquieu to the present day

There is an enduring assumption that the French have never been and will never be liberal. As with all cliches, 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 centuri...

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Otros Autores: Geenens, Raf, 1979- (-), Rosenblatt, Helena, 1961-
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2012
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • French liberalism, an overlooked tradition? / Raf Greenens and Helena Rosenblatt.
  • Two liberal traditions / Larry Siedentop.
  • The unity, diversity and paradoxes of French liberalism / Lucien Jaume.
  • Was Montesquieu liberal? : The Spirit of the Laws in the history of liberalism / Céline Spector.
  • The importance of republican liberty in French liberalism / Andrew Jainchill.
  • Rethinking liberalism and terror / Stephen Holmes.
  • On the need for a Protestant Reformation : Constant, Sismondi, Guizot and Laboulaye / Helena Rosenblatt.
  • "Anti-Benthamism" : utilitarianism and the French liberal tradition / Cheryl B. Welch.
  • Tocqueville : liberalism and imperialism / Alan S. Kahan.
  • War, trade and empire : the dilemmas of French liberal political economy, 1780-1816 / Richard Whatmore.
  • Competition and knowledge : French political economy as a science of government / Philippe Steiner.
  • Is there a French neoliberalism? / Serge Audier.
  • The "sociological turn" in French liberal thought / William Logue.
  • The "illiberalism" of French liberalism : the individual and the state in the thought of Blanc, Dupont-White and Durkheim / Jean-Fabien Spitz.
  • Raymond Aron and the tradition of political moderation in France / Aurelian Craiutu.
  • The politics of individual rights : Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort / Samuel Moyn.