Larry Siedentop, "Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism"
English | ISBN: 0674417534, 0141009543 | 2014 | 416 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.
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