Description: 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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Book Title: Liberalism : a Counter-History
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Year: 2014
Topic: History & Theory, General, Political, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Political Science, Philosophy, History
Item Weight: 14.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Domenico Losurdo
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
