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Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. The Cambridge Companion to Constant presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars, offering a necessary overview for anyone who wants to better understand this important thinker. Separate sections are devoted to Constant as a political theorist and actor, his work as a social analyst and literary critic, and his accomplishments as a historian of religion. Themes covered range from Constant's views on modern liberty, progress, terror, and individualism, to his ideas on slavery and empire, literature, women, and the nature and importance of religion. The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.
| ISBN | 0521672430 | | Pages | 448 | | ISBN13 | 9780521672436
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 590 | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Cambridge Companions to Philosophy | | Publication date | 13 Apr 2009 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Library of Congress | 2008044606 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 320.513092 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education |
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| | | Abbreviations | | | | | | Chronology | | | | 1 | | Benjamin Constant: Life and Work by Dennis Wood | | 3 | | Pt. I | | The Political Thinker and Actor | | | | 2 | | Liberalism's Lucid Illusion by Marcel Gauchet | | 23 | | 3 | | The Liberty to Denounce: Ancient and Modern by Stephen Holmes | | 47 | | 4 | | Constant's Idea of Modern Liberty by Jeremy Jennings | | 69 | | 5 | | Benjamin Constant and the Terror by Stefano De Luca | | 92 | | 6 | | Constant's Thought on Slavery and Empire by Jennifer Pitts | | 115 | | 7 | | Benjamin Constant as a Second Restoration Politician by Robert Alexander | | 146 | | Pt. II | | The Psychologist and Critic | | | | 8 | | Constant and Women by K. Steven Vincent | | 173 | | 9 | | Individualism and Individuality in Constant by Gerald Izenberg | | 206 | | 10 | | Literature and Politics in Constant by Patrick Coleman | | 225 | | 11 | | The Theory of the Perfectibility of the Human Race by Etienne Hofmann | | 248 | | Pt. III | | The Analyst and Historian of Religion | | | | 12 | | Religion According to Constant by Tzvetan Todorov | | 275 | | 13 | | Constant on the Religious Spirit of Liberalism by Bryan Garsten | | 286 | | 14 | | Constant and Religion: "Theism Descends from Heaven to Earth" by Laurence Dickey | | 313 | | 15 | | Eclipses and Revivals: Constant's Reception in France and America 1830-2007 by Helena Rosenblatt | | 351 | | | | Bibliography | | 379 | | | | Index | | 403 |
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