An edition of Liberal beginnings (2008)

Liberal beginnings

making a republic for the moderns

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An edition of Liberal beginnings (2008)

Liberal beginnings

making a republic for the moderns

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"Liberal Beginnings examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson consider the diverse settings of Scotland, the American colonies, the new United States, and France and examine the writings of six leading thinkers of this period: Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Germaine de Stael, and Benjamin Constant. The book traces the process by which these thinkers transformed and advanced the republican project, both from within and by introducing new elements from without. Without compromising civic principles or abandoning republican language, they came to see that, unrevised, the republican tradition could not grapple successfully with the political problems of their time. By investing new meanings, arguments, and justifications into existing republican ideas and political forms, these innovators fashioned a doctrine for a modern republic, the core of which was surprisingly liberal."--Jacket.

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Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Pages
200

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Republicanism Liberalism History

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19th century 18th century
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Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns
2012, Cambridge University Press
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Liberal beginnings: making a republic for the moderns
2008, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

Beginnings
The rhetoric of the market : Adam Smith on recognition, speech, and exchange
Adam Ferguson's agonistic liberalism : modern commercial society and the limits of classical republicanism
After the king : Thomas Paine's and James Madison's institutional liberalism
Embracing liberalism : Germaine de Staël's farewell to republicanism
On the liberty of the moderns : Benjamin Constant and the discovery of an immanent liberalism
After republicanism : a coda.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.51092/2
Library of Congress
JC421 .K36 2008, JC421.K36 2008, JC421 .K35 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
200

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL16364926M
ISBN 13
9780521899468, 9780521728287
LCCN
2007051569
OCLC/WorldCat
185123410
LibraryThing
5957289
Goodreads
6067415
6062427

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Work ID
OL2969367W

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