Liberalism: A Counter-HistoryVerso Books, 4 feb 2014 - 384 pagina's One of Europe’s leading intellectual historians deconstructs the dark side of liberalism, sifting through 3 centuries of liberal writings by John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others. In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery. Narrating an intellectual history running from the 18th through to the 20th centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieyès, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today’s politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order. |
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A Unique Twin Birth | 35 |
Were Eighteenth and NineteenthCentury England and | 95 |
The Revolution in France and San Domingo the Crisis of the | 127 |
The Struggle for Recognition by the Instruments of Labour in | 181 |
A MasterRace Democracy on a | 219 |
SelfConsciousness False Consciousness and Conflicts in the | 241 |
Sacred Space and Profane Space in the History of Liberalism | 297 |
Liberalism and the Catastrophe of the Twentieth Century | 323 |
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