Inventing the individual : the origins of Western liberalism /
"This 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 argume...
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Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : 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 joined : Ockham
- Struggling for representative government in the church
- Dispensing with the Renaissance
- Epilogue : Christianity and secularism