Inventing the Individual : : The Origins of Western Liberalism / / Larry Siedentop.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Siedentop, Larry,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue: What is the West About? --; The World of Antiquity --; 1. The Ancient Family --; 2. The Ancient City --; 3. The Ancient Cosmos --; A Moral Revolution --; 4. The World Turned Upside Down: Paul --; 5. The Truth Within: Moral Equality --; 6. Heroism Redefined --; 7. A New Form of Association: Monasticism --; 8. The Weakness of the Will: Augustine --; Towards the Idea of Fundamental Law --; 9. Shaping New Attitudes and Habits --; 10. Distinguishing Spiritual from Temporal Power --; 11. Barbarian Codes, Roman Law and Christian Intuitions --; 12. The Carolingian Compromise --; Europe Acquires its Identity --; 13. Why Feudalism did not Recreate Ancient Slavery --; 14. Fostering the ‘Peace of God’ --; 15. The Papal Revolution: A Constitution for Europe? --; 16. Natural Law and Natural Rights --; A New Model of Government --; 17. Centralization and the New Sense of Justice --; 18. The Democratizing of Reason --; 19. Steps towards the Creation of Nation-States --; 20. Urban Insurrections --; The Birth Pangs of Modern Liberty --; 21. Popular Aspirations and the Friars --; 22. The Defence of Egalitarian Moral Intuitions --; 23. God’s Freedom and Human Freedom Joined: Ockham --; 24. Struggling for Representative Government in the Church --; 25. Dispensing with the Renaissance --; Epilogue: Christianity and Secularism --; Select Bibliography and Endnotes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674736245; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674736245
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Larry Siedentop.

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.