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Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Siedentop, Larry
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- Book Title
- Inventing the Individual : the Origins of Western Liberalism
- Item Length
- 38.1in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Religion, History, Philosophy, Political Science
- Topic
- History & Theory, General, Modern / General, History, United States / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
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- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
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Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism's usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its underlying assumptions, the offspring of the Church. "It is a magnificent work of intellectual, psychological and spiritual history. It is hard to decide which is more remarkable: the breadth of learning displayed on almost every page, the infectious enthusiasm that suffuses the whole book, the riveting originality of the central argument or the emotional power and force with which it is deployed." --David Marquand, New Republic "Larry Siedentop has written a philosophical history in the spirit of Voltaire, Condorcet, Hegel, and Guizot...At a time when we on the left need to be stirred from our dogmatic slumbers, Inventing the Individual is a reminder of some core values that are pretty widely shared." --James Miller, The Nation "In this learned, subtle, enjoyable and digestible work Siedentop] has offered back to us a proper version of ourselves. He has explained us to ourselves... A] magisterial, timeless yet timely work." --Douglas Murray, The Spectator "Like the best books, Inventing the Individual both teaches you something new and makes you want to argue with it." --Kenan Malik, The Independent
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Harvard University Press
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0674979885
ISBN-13
9780674979888
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Book Title
Inventing the Individual : the Origins of Western Liberalism
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, General, Modern / General, History, United States / General, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Religion, History, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
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Item Length
38.1in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
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In his brilliant book Inventing the Individual , Larry Siedentop paints a vivid portrait of the closed world of pagan antiquity., [ Siedentop ] has produced what amounts to a high-altitude survey of Western ideas, meant to show that the ideal of the autonomous individual and the fact of a pluralistic civil society are both in important respects outgrowths of Christianity...Larry Siedentop has written a philosophical history in the spirit of Voltaire, Condorcet, Hegel, and Guizot. Serious scholars of history will always pick holes in these works. Yet at their most cogent and pointed, such frankly polemical metanarratives of human history help us to understand better not just the history of the present (to borrow a phrase), but also ourselves. At a time when we on the left need to be stirred from our dogmatic slumbers, Inventing the Individual is a reminder of some core values that are pretty widely shared., With Inventing the Individual , Siedentop is not trying to reveal a hidden or suppressed religious impulse in Western modernity but rather attempting to trace a lost genealogy. He sees modern secularism, and its freedoms, as Christianity's gift to human society., It is a magnificent work of intellectual, psychological, and spiritual history. It is hard to decide which is more remarkable: the breadth of learning displayed on almost every page, the infectious enthusiasm that suffuses the whole book, the riveting originality of the central argument, or the emotional power and force with which it is deployed. Siedentop takes us on a 2,000-year journey that starts with the almost inconceivably remote city states of the ancient world and ends with the Renaissance. In the course of this journey, he explodes many (perhaps even most) of the preconceptions that run through the public culture of our day--and that I took for granted before reading his book. Inventing the Individual is not an exercise in dry-as-dust antiquarianism, still less in pop-historical fun and games. Siedentop's aim has a breathtaking grandeur about it: to persuade us to ask ourselves who we are and where we are going by showing us where we have come from. A challenging epilogue suggests that the answers are not very flattering., It is a magnificent work of intellectual, psychological and spiritual history. It is hard to decide which is more remarkable: the breadth of learning displayed on almost every page, the infectious enthusiasm that suffuses the whole book, the riveting originality of the central argument or the emotional power and force with which it is deployed. Siedentop takes us on a 2,000-year journey that starts with the almost inconceivably remote city states of the ancient world and ends with the Renaissance. In the course of this journey, he explodes many (perhaps even most) of the preconceptions that run through the public culture of our day-and that I took for granted before reading his book. Inventing the Individual is not an exercise in dry-as-dust antiquarianism, still less in pop-historical fun and games. Siedentop's aim has a breathtaking grandeur about it: to persuade us to ask ourselves who we are and where we are going by showing us where we have come from. A challenging epilogue suggests that the answers are not very flattering., Siedentop 's argument should change the way we look at both the Middle Ages and the formation of the modern nation-state., Siedentop's argument should change the way we look at both the Middle Ages and the formation of the modern nation-state., In this learned, subtle, enjoyable and digestible work [Siedentop] has offered back to us a proper version of ourselves. He has explained us to ourselves... [A] magisterial, timeless yet timely work., Like the best books, Inventing the Individual both teaches you something new and makes you want to argue with it., In this learned, subtle, enjoyable and digestible work [ Siedentop ] has offered back to us a proper version of ourselves. He has explained us to ourselves... [A] magisterial, timeless yet timely work., [Siedentop] has produced what amounts to a high-altitude survey of Western ideas, meant to show that the ideal of the autonomous individual and the fact of a pluralistic civil society are both in important respects outgrowths of Christianity... Larry Siedentop has written a philosophical history in the spirit of Voltaire, Condorcet, Hegel, and Guizot. Serious scholars of history will always pick holes in these works. Yet at their most cogent and pointed, such frankly polemical metanarratives of human history help us to understand better not just the history of the present (to borrow a phrase), but also ourselves. At a time when we on the left need to be stirred from our dogmatic slumbers, Inventing the Individual is a reminder of some core values that are pretty widely shared., It is a magnificent work of intellectual, psychological and spiritual history. It is hard to decide which is more remarkable: the breadth of learning displayed on almost every page, the infectious enthusiasm that suffuses the whole book, the riveting originality of the central argument or the emotional power and force with which it is deployed. Siedentop takes us on a 2,000-year journey that starts with the almost inconceivably remote city states of the ancient world and ends with the Renaissance. In the course of this journey, he explodes many (perhaps even most) of the preconceptions that run through the public culture of our day--and that I took for granted before reading his book. Inventing the Individual is not an exercise in dry-as-dust antiquarianism, still less in pop-historical fun and games. Siedentop's aim has a breathtaking grandeur about it: to persuade us to ask ourselves who we are and where we are going by showing us where we have come from. A challenging epilogue suggests that the answers are not very flattering.
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