Inventing the Individual : The Origins of Western Liberalism / Larry Siedentop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siedentop, Larry, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism.

Individualism.

Ideals (Philosophy).

Western countries--History.

Western countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 pages)

Edition:

Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: What is the West About?

1. The Ancient Family

2. The Ancient City

3. The Ancient Cosmos

4. The World Turned Upside Down: Paul

5. The Truth Within: Moral Equality

6. Heroism Redefined

7. A New Form of Association: Monasticism

8. The Weakness of the Will: Augustine

9. Shaping New Attitudes and Habits

10. Distinguishing Spiritual from Temporal Power

11. Barbarian Codes, Roman Law and Christian Intuitions

12. The Carolingian Compromise

13. Why Feudalism did not Recreate Ancient Slavery

14. Fostering the ‘Peace of God’

15. The Papal Revolution: A Constitution for Europe?

16. Natural Law and Natural Rights

17. Centralization and the New Sense of Justice

18. The Democratizing of Reason

19. Steps towards the Creation of Nation-States

20. Urban Insurrections

21. Popular Aspirations and the Friars

22. The Defence of Egalitarian Moral Intuitions

23. God’s Freedom and Human Freedom Joined: Ockham

24. Struggling for Representative Government in the Church

25. Dispensing with the Renaissance

Epilogue: Christianity and Secularism

Select Bibliography and Endnotes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-74473-X

0-674-73624-9

OCLC:

892911334