Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
2 - State and Individual in Political Thought
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2019
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- 1 Introduction
- 2 State and Individual in Political Thought
- 3 Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and Their Critics
- 4 Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel*
- 5 The Origins of the Social Sciences
- 6 Historical Methods in Europe and America
- 7 Capitalism and Its Critics
- 8 Individuality, the Self and Concepts of Mind
- 9 Social Darwinism
- 10 Feminist Thought
- 11 Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
- 12 Patterns of Literary Transformation
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Summary
Liberalism and democracy are wrongly seen as inseparable by many people today – despite the alarming evidence provided by some governments that are democratically elected yet behave in strikingly illiberal ways. But liberalism and democracy are neither necessarily interchangeable nor allied, either conceptually or historically. The playground on which the relationship was forged and first tested was nineteenth-century politics and thought in Europe and America. It was also in the nineteenth century that the diverse meanings of the two terms were debated and established.
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