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Why Not Moderation?

Letters to Young Radicals

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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Why Not Moderation?

Letters to Young Radicals

By: Aurelian Craiutu

Moderation can be a winning card. It can cure us of hubris and arrogance and helps combat extremism and fanaticism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108494951

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Liberalism under Siege

The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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Liberalism under Siege

The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires

By: Aurelian Craiutu

Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced sociological and historical approach to political theory. The first systematic interpretation of the French Doctrinaries' political writings to appear in English, Liberalism under Siege combines textual analysis and historical interpretation to explore the Doctrinaires' ideas on the French Revolution, democracy, political power, sovereignty of reason, publicity, capacity, and representative government. Aurelian Craiutu's detailed work is not only an argument for the reappraisal of the Bourbon Restoration as a golden age of political thought; it is also a passionate and persuasive addition to contemporary debates about the diversity of liberalism.

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Lexington Books

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073915155X

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Why Not Moderation?

Letters to Young Radicals

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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Letters to Young Radicals

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Moderation can be a winning card. It can cure us of hubris and arrogance and helps combat extremism and fanaticism.

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Liberalism under Siege

The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires

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A Virtue for Courageous Minds

Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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A Virtue for Courageous Minds

Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830

By: Aurelian Craiutu

Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer these questions, A Virtue for Courageous Minds examines moderation in modern French political thought and sheds light on the French Revolution and its legacy. Aurelian Craiutu begins with classical thinkers who extolled the virtues of a moderate approach to politics, such as Aristotle and Cicero. He then shows how Montesquieu inaugurated the modern rebirth of this tradition by laying the intellectual foundations for moderate government. Craiutu looks at important figures such as Jacques Necker, Madame de Staël, and Benjamin Constant, not only in the context of revolutionary France but throughout Europe. He traces how moderation evolves from an individual moral virtue into a set of institutional arrangements calculated to protect individual liberty, and he explores the deep affinity between political moderation and constitutional complexity. Craiutu demonstrates how moderation navigates between political extremes, and he challenges the common notion that moderation is an essentially conservative virtue, stressing instead its eclectic nature. Drawing on a broad range of writings in political theory, the history of political thought, philosophy, and law, A Virtue for Courageous Minds reveals how the virtue of political moderation can address the profound complexities of the world today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691171343

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9780691171340

Faces of Moderation

The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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Faces of Moderation

The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes

By: Aurelian Craiutu

Examining the writings of twentieth-century thinkers such as Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Norberto Bobbio, Michael Oakeshott, and Adam Michnik, Faces of Moderation argues that moderation remains crucial for today's encounters with new forms of extremism.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812224094

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9780812224092

A Virtue for Courageous Minds

Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830

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Princeton University Press

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America Through European Eyes

British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

By: Aurelian Cr_iu_u,Jeffrey C. Isaac

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America Through European Eyes

British and French Reflections on the New World from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

By: Aurelian Cr_iu_u,Jeffrey C. Isaac

A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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0271033908

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Faces of Moderation

The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes

By: Aurelian Craiutu

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The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes

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Tocqueville on America After 1840

Letters and Other Writings

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

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Tocqueville on America After 1840

Letters and Other Writings

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

Tocqueville on America after 1840 provides access to Tocqueville's views on American politics from 1840 to 1859, revealing his shift in thinking and growing disenchantment with America.

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051165037X

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Why Not Moderation?

Letters to Young Radicals

By: Aurelian Crăiuțu

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Why Not Moderation?

Letters to Young Radicals

By: Aurelian Crăiuțu

Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labeled "moderates" for fear of losing elections. Why Not Moderation? challenges this conventional image and shows that moderation is a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides. Through a series of imaginary letters between a passionate moderate and two young radicals, the book outlines the distinctive political vision undergirding moderation and makes a case for why we need this virtue today in America. Drawing on clearly written and compelling sources, Craiutu offers an opportunity to rethink moderation and participate in the important public debate on what kind of society we want to live in. His book reminds us that we cannot afford to bargain away the liberal civilization and open society we have inherited from our forefathers"--

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1108816711

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Why Not Moderation?

Why Not Moderation?

Liberalism under Siege

Liberalism under Siege

Why Not Moderation?

Why Not Moderation?

Liberalism under Siege

Liberalism under Siege

A Virtue for Courageous Minds

A Virtue for Courageous Minds

Faces of Moderation

Faces of Moderation

A Virtue for Courageous Minds

A Virtue for Courageous Minds

America Through European Eyes

America Through European Eyes

Faces of Moderation

Faces of Moderation

Tocqueville on America After 1840

Tocqueville on America After 1840

Why Not Moderation?

Why Not Moderation?

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