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An Intellectual History of Liberalism
Pierre Manent
Translated by Rebecca Balinski
With a foreword by Jerrold Seigel

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword
Preface
Ch. IEurope and the Theologico-Political Problem3
Ch. IIMachiavelli and the Fecundity of Evil10
Ch. IIIHobbes and the New Political Art20
Ch. IVLocke, Labor, and Property39
Ch. VMontesquieu and the Separation of Powers53
Ch. VIRousseau, Critic of Liberalism65
Ch. VIILiberalism after the French Revolution80
Ch. VIIIBenjamin Constant and the Liberalism of Opposition84
Ch. IXFrancois Guizot: The Liberalism of Government93
Ch. XTocqueville: Liberalism Confronts Democracy103
Conclusion114
Notes119
Index125

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