The Necessity of Choice Nineteenth Century Political Thought
Coordonnateur : Hartz Louis
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Louis Hartz is best known for his classic study, The Liberal Tradition in America. At Harvard University, his lecture course on nineteenth-century politics and ideologies was memorable. Through the editorial hand of Paul Roazen, we can now share the experience of Hartz's considerable contributions to the theory of politics.
At the root of Hartz's work is the belief that revolution is not produced by misery, but by pressure of a new system on an old one. This approach enables him to explain sharp differences in revolutionary traditions. Because America essentially was a liberal society from its beginning and had no need for revolutions, America also lacked reactionaries, and lacked a tradition of genuine conservatism characteristic of European thought.
In lectures embracing Rousseau, Burke, Comte, Hegel, Mill, and Marx among others, Hartz develops a keen sense of the delicate balance between the role of the state in both enhancing and limiting personal freedom. Hartz notably insisted on the autonomy of intellectual life and the necessity of individual choice as an essential ingredient of liberty.
Date de parution : 01-1990
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 11-2014
15.2x22.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Louis De Bonald; corporate; Mid-nineteenth Century Liberalism; society; Ancient Greek Ideal; order; Rousseauian Solution; natural; Natural Law Thinking; law; Social Coercion; social; Reactionary Theorists; coercions; Free Plurality; century; Feudal Socialists; liberalism; Eighteenth Century Thinking; rousseauian; Utilitarian Liberalism; Hartz Louis; Natural Law Concept; paul Roazen; Nineteenth Century Liberalism; Intuitive Element; Violated; Ancient Greece; Rube Goldberg Device; Bentham’s Utilitarian Hedonism; Common Conservatism; Benthamite Theory; Statist Mentality; Civil Religion; Economic Liberty; Liberal Nationalism; Handicraft Stage