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An edition of Inventing the Individual (2014)

Inventing the individual

the origins of Western Liberalism

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"This short but highly ambitious book asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern states are built. Larry Siedentop argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs, liberalism, emerged much earlier than generally recognised, established not in the Renaissance but by the arguments of lawyers and philosophers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. There are large parts of the world--fundamentalist Islam; quasi-capitalist China--where other belief systems flourish. Faced with these challenges, understanding our own ideas' origins is more than ever an important part of knowing who we are."--Publisher's Web site.

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Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
433

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Subjects

Liberalism, Ideals (philosophy), United states, history, Individualism, History, Europe, intellectual life

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2017, Penguin Books, Limited
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Table of Contents

Prologue : what is the West about?
The world of antiquity. The ancient family ; The ancient city ; The ancient cosmos
A moral revolution. The world turned upside down : Paul ; The truth within : moral equality ; Heroism redefined ; A new form of association : monasticism ; The weakness of the will : Augustine
Towards the idea of fundamental law. Shaping new attitudes and habits ; Distinguishing spiritual from temporal power ; Barbarian codes, Roman law and Christian intuitions ; The Carolingian compromise
Europe acquires its identity. Why feudalism did not recreate ancient slavery ; Fostering the "Peace of God" ; The papal revolution : a constitution for Europe? ; Natural law and natural rights
A new model of government. Centralization and the new sense of justice ; The democratizing of reason ; Steps towards the creation of nation-states ; Urban insurrections
The birth pangs of modern liberty. Popular aspirations and the friars ; The defence of egalitarian moral intuitions ; God's freedom and human freedom joinded : Ockham ; Struggling for representative government in the church ; Dispensing with the Renaissance
Epilogue : Christianity and secularism.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographic references and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.51
Library of Congress
JC574 .S498 2014, JC574.2

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 433 pages
Number of pages
433

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30995980M
ISBN 10
0713996447
ISBN 13
9780713996449
LCCN
2013487470
OCLC/WorldCat
874062158

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