Liberalism : a counter-history / Domenico Losurdo ; translated by Gregory Elliott.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: Verso PressEdition: First Verso paperback editionDescription: viii, 375 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781781681664 (pbk.)
- 9781844676934 (hard)
- Controstoria del liberalismo. English
- 320.51 23
- JC574 .L6713 2014
- POL042020 | POL010000
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Books | Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts | 320.51 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | SSLA-B-5034 |
Originally published : 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-361) and index.
"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 eighteenth through to the twentieth 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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