Inventing the individual : the origins of Western liberalism
Siedentop, Larry2015
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This ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west. The invention of a new, equal social role, the individual, gradually displaced the claims of family, tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation. Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and government are built, and argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs emerged much earlier than we think.
Main title:
Inventing the individual : the origins of Western liberalism / Larry Siedentop.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2015.
Collation:
viii, 433 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780141009544 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1100856
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