Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism
ISBN-10
0674417534
ISBN-13
9780674417533
Category
Political Science
Pages
433
Language
English
Published
2014-10-20
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Larry Siedentop

Description

Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism’s usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its underlying assumptions, the offspring of the Church.

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