Benjamin Constant

A Biography
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-51315-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

`For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.'
Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. `The Grief That Does Not Speak': Constant and his Father (1767-1783) 2. `The Charms of Friendship' (1783-1785) 3. Isabelle de Charriere (1785-1787) 4. Escape (1787-1788) 5. The Brunswick Years (1788-1794) 6. Germaine de Stael (1794-1800) 7. `The Intermittence of the Heart' (1800-1806) 8. `Italiam, Italiam' (1806-1812) 9. The End of an Empire (1812-1816) 10. Adolphe (1816-1819) 11. Apotheosis (1819-1830) Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Dennis Wood