Liberalism: A Counter-History

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. Narrating an intellectual history running from the eighteenth through to the twentieth centuries, Losurdo examines the thought of preeminent liberal writers such as Locke, Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, and Sieyes, revealing the inner contradictions of an intellectual position that has exercised a formative influence on today’s politics.

Publisher: Verso
Date Published: 2011
Book Condition: Very good hardcover in a dust jacket showing minor surface and edge wear. There is some minor spotting to the top edge of the text block and minor shelving wear to bottom boards. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.