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Liberalism: A Counter-History

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Availability:In StockContributor:Domenico Losurdo, Gregory Elliott (Translator)Publish date:2014-02-04Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681664ISBN-10:178168166XUPC:9781781681664Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Political Ideologies, History & SurveysBook Topic:Conservatism & Liberalism, ModernSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXQ6CGPHV
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 Siey?s, 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681664ISBN-10:178168166XUPC:9781781681664Book Category:Philosophy, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Political, Political Ideologies, History & SurveysBook Topic:Conservatism & Liberalism, ModernSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXQ6CGPHV
Domenico Losurdo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the author of many books in Italian, German, French and Spanish. In English, he has published Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns and Heidegger and the Ideology of War.
Publisher: Verso

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