Inventing the Individual
Author | : Larry Siedentop |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674417533 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674417534 |
Rating | : 4/5 (534 Downloads) |
Download or read book Inventing the Individual written by Larry Siedentop and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism’s usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its underlying assumptions, the offspring of the Church.