Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-401) and index.
Contents:
Benjamin Constant: life and work / Dennis Wood -- Liberalism's lucid illusion / Marcel Gauchet -- The liberty to denounce: ancient and modern / Stephen Holmes -- Constant's idea of modern liberty / Jeremy Jennings -- Benjamin Constant and the terror / Stefano de Luca -- Constant's thought on slavery and empire / Jennifer Pitts -- Benjamin Constant as a second Restoration politician / Robert Alexander -- Constant and women / K. Steven Vincent -- Individualism and individuality in Constant / Gerald Izenberg -- Literature and politics in Constant / Patrick Coleman -- The theory of the perfectibility of the human race / Etienne Hofmann -- Religion according to Constant / Tzvetan Todorov -- Constant on the religious spirit of liberalism / Bryan Garsten -- Constant and religion: "theism descends from heaven to earth" / Laurence Dickey -- Eclipses and revivals: Constant's reception in France and America 1830-2007 / Helena Rosenblatt
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