{"product_id":"liberalism-a-counter-history-9781781681664","title":"Liberalism: A Counter-History","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of Europe's leading intellectual historians deconstructs the dark side of liberalism, sifting through 3 centuries of liberal writings by John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Narrating an intellectual history running from the 18th through to the 20th centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Siey?s, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today's politics. Among the dominant strains of liberalism, he discerns the counter-currents of more radical positions, lost in the constitution of the modern world order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDomenico Losurdo\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHegel and the Freedom of Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHeidegger and the Ideology of War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630047924498,"sku":"9781781681664","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_db418bd5-030a-427d-b89f-528c8388e42e.jpg?v=1732742128","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/liberalism-a-counter-history-9781781681664","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}