Title French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville : Liberty in a Levelled Society?

Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) Series Ideas in Context Ideas in context Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Political thought in eighteenth-century France: the invention of aristocratic liberalism; CHAPTER 2 Liberty and inequality: the royalist discourse; CHAPTER 3 A society of equals: the liberal response; CHAPTER 4 Liberty in a levelled society: Charles Dunoyer, Benjamin Constant, and Prosper de Barante; CHAPTER 5 The new aristocracy: a theme in Restoration liberalism; CHAPTER 6 The danger of democracy: Orl ́eanist liberalism and Alexis de Tocqueville; TOCQUEVILLE'S PESSIMISM CHAPTER 7 The French predicament: aristocratic liberalism in the Second EmpireEpilogue; Bibliography; Index Summary A major contribution to the understanding of one of the most important strands of modern political thought Notes Print version record Subject Liberalism -- France -- History -- 18th century Liberalism -- France -- History -- 19th century Republicanism -- France -- History -- 18th century Republicanism -- France -- History -- 19th century Liberalism. Republicanism. France. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511386909 0511386907

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