Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns
by Andreas Kalyvas, Ira Katznelson
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The book examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. The authors 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 Stae?l, and Benjamin Constant. The book traces the process by which these thinkers show more 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. show lessTags
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An examination of the ways in which republican thought and economic liberalism blended into each other in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Andreas Kalyvas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research and the Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts.
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Ira Katznelson is interim provost, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, and deputy director of Columbia World Projects at Columbia University. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including When Affirmative Action Was White (2005) and Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time (2013).
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, General Nonfiction
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- 320.51092 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science Types of Government Political ideologies Liberalism Biography And History Biography
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- JC421 .K35 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Forms of the state
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