The Rise of European Liberalism
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The Rise of European Liberalism

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The Rise of European Liberalism

About this book

Beginning with the new worlds of the Renaissance and the Reformation, this book traces the growth of liberal doctrine through the advent of the French Revolution. It shows the relationship of liberalism to the emerging economic system of capitalism, and the impact of this relationship upon science, philosophy, and literature. Laski explains how the same causes which produced the socially active aspect of liberalism also inspired the growth of socialism. The contributions of men like Machiavelli, Locke, and Voltaire, the influence of the voyages of discovery, and the effect of the Puritan Rebellion are among the special topics discussed.

The Rise of European Liberalism is a historical survey of the development of liberal thought, from its earliest whispers in early Protestantism to its significance in the "Red Decade" of the 1930s. Laski argues that liberalism as a philosophy came into existence with the rise of capitalism and thus functions primarily as an ideological defense of private property in a business civilization. Hence, liberalism's progressive side is doomed to defeat because, throughout its history, the bourgeois nature of the ideology has always prevailed.

In the new introduction, John Stanley traces the history and influences of Laski's thought and provides a detailed analysis of Laski's work. The essay provides a coherent study in itself of why Laski is better remembered than widely read. The Rise of European Liberalism is a classic text that deserves rediscovery for historians, philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists of the present day.

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Index

accountancy, 27
Acontius, 61, 66, 267
Acton, Lord, 267
Addison, 88, 89, 118, 159
Agrícola, 75
Alberico Gcntili, 55
Allen, Professor J. W., 266, 267
Althusius, 119, 142, 270
America, 129, 163, 173, 238, 240, 248 et seq., 253
Anabaptists, 49
Andrewes, 88
Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1786, 186
anti-Semitism in Germany, 51
Aquinas, 33
Arminius, 66
Arnold, Matthew, 241, 279
Atkinson, Professor, 121
Babeuf, 162, 236
Bacon, Francis, 12, 42, 45, 62, 66, 77, 84, 88, 122, 149, 267, 268
Bagehot, 254
Barbier, 171
Bamave, 226, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 278
Baudrillart, H., 266
Bauhin, 74
Baxter, Richard, 93, 95, 121, 134
Bayle, 86, 98, 120, 124, 139, 140, 270, 272
Bayne, 265
Beard, Professor Charles, 274
Beaufort, Cardinal, 36
Beauvray, Lefevre de, 166
Becker, Professor Carl, 271
Becket, Thomas, 36
Bekker, B., 272
Bellarmine, 45, 54, 120, 266
Benoist, Elie, 268
Bentham, 149, 192, 194
Berens, L. H., 269
Beza, 33, 50
Biel, Gabriel, 33
Bismarck, 254
Blunt, 266
Bodin, 19, 45, 46, 47, 48, 62, 65, 80, 266
Boileau, 138
Boisguillebert, 154, 273
Boissonade. P., 268
Boissy d’Anglas, 230
Boncerf, 172
Bossuet, 64, 92, 97, 98, 99, 118, 122, 125, 134, 142, 2...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Introduction to the Transaction Edition
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. I. The Background
  9. II. The Seventeenth Century
  10. III. The Age of Enlightenment
  11. Conclusion: The Aftermath
  12. Notes
  13. Index