Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on translations
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Constant's education: the French, Scottish, and German Enlightenments
- Chapter 2 The crucible of the Directory years
- Chapter 3 Napoleon, or battling “the new Cyrus”
- Chapter 4 Constant becomes Constant: from the Principles of Politics (1806) to The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation (1814)
- Chapter 5 Politics and religion during the Restoration (1814–1824)
- Chapter 6 “The Protestant Bossuet”: De la religion in political context (1824–1830)
- Chapter 7 Constant's legacy
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Ideas in Context
- References
Select bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on translations
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Constant's education: the French, Scottish, and German Enlightenments
- Chapter 2 The crucible of the Directory years
- Chapter 3 Napoleon, or battling “the new Cyrus”
- Chapter 4 Constant becomes Constant: from the Principles of Politics (1806) to The Spirit of Conquest and Usurpation (1814)
- Chapter 5 Politics and religion during the Restoration (1814–1824)
- Chapter 6 “The Protestant Bossuet”: De la religion in political context (1824–1830)
- Chapter 7 Constant's legacy
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Ideas in Context
- References
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- Liberal ValuesBenjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion, pp. 249 - 265Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008