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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. While Constant's fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis O'Keeffe has focused on retaining the 'general elegance and subtle rhetoric' of the original. Sir Isaiah Berlin called Constant 'the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' and believed to him we owe the notion of 'negative liberty', that is, what Biancamaria Fontana describes as "the protection of individual experience and choices from external interferences and constraints." To Constant it was relatively unimportant whether liberty was ultimately grounded in religion or metaphysics -- what mattered were the practical guarantees of practical freedom -- "autonomy in all those aspects of life that could cause no harm to others or to society as a whole." This translation is based on Etienne Hofmann's critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constant's additions to the original work. …

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Zustand: New. Editor(s): Hofmann, Etienne. Translator(s): O'Keefe, Dennis. Num Pages: 558 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 984. . 2003. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Principles of Politics, first published in 1815, Constant explores the subjects of law, sovereignty, and representation; power and accountability; government, property, and taxation; wealth and poverty; war, peace, and the maintenance of public order; and freedom, of the individual, of the press, and of religion. Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), born in Switzerland, became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician.…

Original softcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. XXII, 558 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Somewhat stained edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Etwas angeschmutzter Schnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - BENJAMIN Constant [1767-1830], born in Switzerland, became one of Frances leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher and politician. His colorful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. Sir Isaiah Berlin called him the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy. While Constants fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis OKeeffe has focused on retaining the general elegance and subtle rhetoric of the original. Principles of Politics, first published in 1815, is a microcosm of [Constants] whole political philosophy and an expression of his political experience, says Nicholas Capaldi in his Introduction. Constant always saw freedom as an organic phenomenon: to attack it in any particular was to attack it generally. In the Principles Constant explores many subjects: law, sovereignty and representation; power and accountability; government, property and taxation; wealth and poverty; war, peace and the maintenance of public order; and above all freedom, of the individual, of the press, and of religion. This translation is based on Etienne Hofmanns critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constants Additions to the original work. - DENNIS OKEEFFE is Professor of Social Science at the University of Buckingham and Senior Research Fellow in Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He has published widely in the area of education and the social sciences. His books include The Wayward Elite (1990) and Political Correctness and Public Finance (1999). His previous translations include Alain Finkiel-krauts The Undoing of Thought (La Défaite de la Pensée) (1988). ISBN 9780865973954 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 990. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnIn Principles of Politics, first published in 1815, Constant explores the subjects of law, sovereignty, and representation power and accountability government, property, and taxation wealth and pove.