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  1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the foundations of modern political thought.Michael Sonenscher - 2017 - Modern Intellectual History 14 (2):311-337.
    This essay is about the relationship between the moral and political thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the related concepts of autonomy, social science and industrialism. Its aim is to show why these three concepts throw more light both on Rousseau's theory of the relationship between democratic sovereignty and representative government, and on his explanation of the sharply counterintuitive historical trajectory followed by democracy in its passage from ancient to modern times.
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  • Afterlives of Saint-Simonianism: Michel Chevalier and nineteenth-century French liberalism.Teddy Paikin - forthcoming - History of European Ideas.
    This article examines the evolution of nineteenth-century French economist Michel Chevalier’s reputation and self-understanding as a Saint-Simonian. Despite only having served two years as chief editor of the famous Saint-Simonian Globe, Chevalier’s attempt to re-integrate himself into liberal intellectual circles following his split from the Saint-Simonian movement was consistently hindered by his perceived adherence to its illiberal principles. This article mobilizes Chevalier’s reputation as a means to explore the porous boundary between Saint-Simonianism and French liberalism at a time when the (...)
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  • Religion and the Case Against Ancient Liberty: Benjamin Constant’s Other Lectures.Bryan Garsten - 2010 - Political Theory 38 (1):4-33.
    Benjamin Constant's famous lecture comparing ancient and modern liberty can be better understood if it is read alongside a set of unpublished lectures on ancient religion that he delivered one year earlier. Those lectures suggest that Constant's commitment to modern liberty was based in part on his deep anxieties about religious freedom, and that he valued religious freedom because he thought the "religious sentiment" was an important manifestation of a natural human capacity for self-development. In putting religion and self-development at (...)
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  • The two modern liberties of Constant and Berlin.Maria Dimova-Cookson - 2022 - History of European Ideas 48 (3):229-245.
    ABSTRACT The paper challenges the general perception that the positive–negative freedom discourse privileges negative liberty. It demonstrates that Constant and Berlin’s dual freedom conceptual scheme contains the blueprint of a modern concept of positive freedom and it reveals the nature of negative freedom in an entirely new light. Constant’s ancient and modern liberties have many similarities with Berlin’s two concepts of freedom – positive and negative. The paper shows that these similarities warrant a parallel study and allow us to examine (...)
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  • Review Article: Behind the Nostalgia for Ancient Liberty.Bryan Garsten - 2009 - European Journal of Political Theory 8 (3):401-411.
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