Inventing the individual : the origins of Western liberalism / Larry Siedentop.
2014
JC574 .S543 2014
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Title
Inventing the individual : the origins of Western liberalism / Larry Siedentop.
Author
ISBN
9780674417533 (cloth: alkaline paper)
0674417534 (cloth: alkaline paper)
9780674417533 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674417534 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674979888 (pbk.)
0674417534 (cloth: alkaline paper)
9780674417533 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674417534 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674979888 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
viii, 433 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
JC574 .S543 2014
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. Beginning with a moral revolution in the first centuries CE, when notions about equality and human agency were first formulated by St. Paul, Siedentop follows these concepts in Christianity from Augustine to the philosophers and canon lawyers of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, and ends with their reemergence in secularism - another of Christianity's gifts to the West. -- Book Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references(pages 365-386) and index.
Includes bibliographical references(pages 365-386) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue: What is the West about?
THE WORLD OF ANTIQUITY
The ancient family
The ancient city
The ancient cosmos
A MORAL REVOLUTION
The world turned upside down: Paul
The truth within: moral equality
Heroism redefined
A new form of association: monasticism
The weakness of the will: Augustine
TOWARDS THE IDEA OF FUNDAMENTAL LAW
Shaping new attitudes and habits
Distinguishing spiritual from temporal power
Barbarian codes, Roman law and Christian intuitions
The Carolingian compromise
EUROPE ACQUIRES ITS IDENTITY
Why feudalism did not recreate ancient slavery
Fostering the 'Peace of God'
The papal revolution: a constitution for Europe?
Natural law and natural rights
A NEW MODEL OF GOVERNMENT
Centralization and the new sense of justice
The democratizing of reason
Steps towards the creation of nation-states
Urban insurrections
THE BIRTH PANGS OF MODERN LIBERTY
Popular aspirations and the Friars
The defence of egalitarian moral intuitions
God's freedom and human freedom joined: Ockham
Struggling for representative government in the church
Dispensing with the Renaissance
Epilogue: Christianity and secularism
Select bibliography and endnotes
Index.
THE WORLD OF ANTIQUITY
The ancient family
The ancient city
The ancient cosmos
A MORAL REVOLUTION
The world turned upside down: Paul
The truth within: moral equality
Heroism redefined
A new form of association: monasticism
The weakness of the will: Augustine
TOWARDS THE IDEA OF FUNDAMENTAL LAW
Shaping new attitudes and habits
Distinguishing spiritual from temporal power
Barbarian codes, Roman law and Christian intuitions
The Carolingian compromise
EUROPE ACQUIRES ITS IDENTITY
Why feudalism did not recreate ancient slavery
Fostering the 'Peace of God'
The papal revolution: a constitution for Europe?
Natural law and natural rights
A NEW MODEL OF GOVERNMENT
Centralization and the new sense of justice
The democratizing of reason
Steps towards the creation of nation-states
Urban insurrections
THE BIRTH PANGS OF MODERN LIBERTY
Popular aspirations and the Friars
The defence of egalitarian moral intuitions
God's freedom and human freedom joined: Ockham
Struggling for representative government in the church
Dispensing with the Renaissance
Epilogue: Christianity and secularism
Select bibliography and endnotes
Index.
Source of Acquisition
Ewing Kauffman Book Fund.
Location
JC574 .S543 2014
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