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100	1		_aSiedentop, Larry. _eauthor. _91792
245	1	0	_aInventing the individual : _bthe origins of Western Liberalism / _cby Larry Siedentop.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _cc2014.
300			_aviii, 434 p. : _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographic references and index (p. 365-434).
505	0		_aPrologue : what is the West about? -- The world of antiquity. The ancient family ; The ancient city ; The ancient cosmos -- A moral revolution. The world turned upside down : Paul ; The truth within : moral equality ; Heroism redefined ; A new form of association : monasticism ; The weakness of the will : Augustine -- Towards the idea of fundamental law. Shaping new attitudes and habits ; Distinguishing spiritual from temporal power ; Barbarian codes, Roman law and Christian intuitions ; The Carolingian compromise -- Europe acquires its identity. Why feudalism did not recreate ancient slavery ; Fostering the "Peace of God" ; The papal revolution : a constitution for Europe? ; Natural law and natural rights -- A new model of government. Centralization and the new sense of justice ; The democratizing of reason ; Steps towards the creation of nation-states ; Urban insurrections -- The birth pangs of modern liberty. Popular aspirations and the friars ; The defence of egalitarian moral intuitions ; God's freedom and human freedom joinded : Ockham ; Struggling for representative government in the church ; Dispensing with the Renaissance -- Epilogue : Christianity and secularism.
520			_a"This short but highly ambitious book asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern states are built. Larry Siedentop argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs, liberalism, emerged much earlier than generally recognised, established not in the Renaissance but by the arguments of lawyers and philosophers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. There are large parts of the world--fundamentalist Islam; quasi-capitalist China--where other belief systems flourish. Faced with these challenges, understanding our own ideas' origins is more than ever an important part of knowing who we are."--Publisher's Web site.
650		0	_aLiberalism. _91793
650		0	_aIdeals (Philosophy) _91794
651		0	_aWestern countries _xHistory. _91795
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2013487470-d.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1506/2013487470-b.html
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