Élie Halévy : Republican liberalism confronts the era of tyranny /
An intellectual biography of Élie Halévy that examines the entire range of Halévy's works, as well as the contexts within which these works were written, his neo-Kantian philosophical orientation, his incisive analysis of British Utilitarianism (an analysis still debated by historians of politi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Intellectual history of the modern age.
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| Summary: | An intellectual biography of Élie Halévy that examines the entire range of Halévy's works, as well as the contexts within which these works were written, his neo-Kantian philosophical orientation, his incisive analysis of British Utilitarianism (an analysis still debated by historians of political thought), his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair, his stance of "socialist liberalism" in the years before World War I, his thesis about the importance of religion and mores in modern England (the so-called "Halévy thesis"), his principled stance during World War I, his new views of socialism and nationalism after the war and his arguments concerning the era of tyrannies. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812252033 0812252039 |