1st Edition
Aristocratic Liberalism The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis De Tocqueville
By Alan Kahan
Copyright 2001
250 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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"Liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define. Burckhardt, Mill, and Tocqueville define one type of liberal thought. They share an aristocratic liberalism marked by distaste for the masses and the middle class, opposition to the commercial spirit, fear and contempt of... Read more
Introduction; 1: Past and Present: The Eighteenth Century and the Origins of Modernity; 2: The Spirit of the Majority; 3: Despotisms: The State and Its Masters; 4: Modern Humanism: The Values of Aristocratic Liberalism; 5: “Working Against Time”: The Aristocratic Liberal Response to the Challenge of Modernity; 6: Conclusion: Toward a History of European Liberalism, 1830–1870
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Alan Kahan
