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320.51 RAW Political liberalism | 320.51 RAW Law of People | 320.51 ROS The lost history of liberalism : from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century | 320.51 SIE Inventing the individual : the origins of Western Liberalism | 320.51 STR Liberalism, ancient and modern | 320.51092 FRE Cambridge companion to Rawls | 320.51092 SEN Liberals |
Includes bibliographic references and index.
"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.
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