Bøker av Mark Hulliung

This book explores the major political debates in England during the final decades of the eighteenth century, a period when responses to the American and French Revolutions were a major concern and the entire future of public life in England was in question.

Of all the critiques of the Enlightenment, the most telling may be found in the life and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that moral ends sometimes require immoral means

Of all the critiques of the Enlightenment, the most telling may be found in the life and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.

Illuminates Sartre's unique contribution to the grand debate between Marxism and anarchism.

Machiavelli has been viewed as the forerunner of the humanists of our day, liberals and socialists, who have discovered that moral ends sometimes require immoral means