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Liberalism: A Counter-History

Liberalism: A Counter-History

by Gregory Elliott (Translator), Domenico Losurdo (Author), Domenico Losurdo (Author), Gregory Elliott (Translator)

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Synopsis

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism, genocide, racism and snobbery.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 384
 Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 04 Feb 2014
ISBN 10: 178168166X
ISBN 13: 9781781681664

Media Reviews
Stimulatingly uncovers the contradictions of an ideology that is much too self- righteously invoked. Pankaj Mishra, Guardian A brilliant exercise in unmasking liberal pretensions, surveying over three centuries with magisterial command of the sources. Financial Times
Author Bio
DOMENICO LOSURDO is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Urbino, Italy. He is the author of many books in Italian, German, French and Spanish. In English, he has published Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns and Heidegger and the Ideology of War.