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Liberalism: A Counter-History

By Domenico Losurdo

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2014
ISBN
178168166X, 9781781681664
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1501073 bytes)
Pages
384\0
Time added
2017-05-11 21:15:58
Modern;Philosophy;Politics & Social Sciences;Polit

Description

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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