TY - BOOK ID - 78132695 TI - Liberal beginnings : making a republic for the moderns AU - Kalyvas, Andreas AU - Katznelson, Ira. PY - 2008 SN - 9780521728287 9780521899468 9780511790782 9780511424304 0511424302 9780511423314 0511423314 0511423829 9780511423826 0511790783 052189946X 0521728282 1107202396 1281775797 9786611775797 0511422652 0511421990 9781107202399 9781281775795 661177579X 9780511422652 9780511421990 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Liberalism KW - Republicanism KW - Liberal egalitarianism KW - Liberty KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - History KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78132695 AB - The book examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. The authors consider the diverse settings of Scotland, the American colonies, the new United States, and France and examine the writings of six leading thinkers of this period: Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Germaine de StaeĢl, and Benjamin Constant. The book traces the process by which these thinkers transformed and advanced the republican project, both from within and by introducing new elements from without. Without compromising civic principles or abandoning republican language, they came to see that unrevised, the republican tradition could not grapple successfully with the political problems of their time. By investing new meanings, arguments, and justifications into existing republican ideas and political forms, these innovators fashioned a doctrine for a modern republic, the core of which was surprisingly liberal. ER -