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020			_a9781781681664
082			_a320.51 _bLOS
100			_aLosurdo, Domenico
245			_aLiberalism : a counter-history
260			_bVerso, _c2014 _aLondon :
300			_aviii, 375 p. ; _c24 cm
365			_b15.99 _c£ _d113.80
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index. Translation form Spanish.
520			_aOne of Europe's leading intellectual historians deconstructs liberalism's dark side. In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery. Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieyès, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today's politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.
650			_aFree enterprise
650			_aAbolitionism
650			_aAmerican Revolution
650			_aAncien régime
650			_aFrench Revolution
650			_aLliberal thinkers
650			_aRacism
650			_aSlavery
650			_aExploitation
650			_aGenocide
650			_aOpium Wars
650			_aJim Crow laws
700			_aElliott, Gregory _etr.
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