Louis Hart is best known for his classic study The Liberal Tradition in America. Through the editorial hand of Paul Roaen, working with other participants in Hart's Harvard lecture series, we now have the opportunity to review Hart's lectures embracing Rousseau, Burke, Comte, Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Owen, Fourier, and Marx, among others.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword, by Benjamin R. Barber
Introduction, by Paul Roazen
Part I: The Revolutionary Background
1 Origins
2 The Religious Problem
3 The Economic Question
4 Culture and Tradition: Condorcet
5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6 Rousseau and Our Constructive Problem
Part II: Reaction and Authoritarianism
7 The Setting
8 Romanticism
9 Edmund Burke
10 Joseph de Maistre
11 Louis de Bonald
12 Auguste Comte
13 Georg W. F. Hegel
14 A Free Society and Its Relation to the State
Part III: Liberalism
15 The Problem of Industrial Society
16 Bentham's Utilitarianism
17 John Stuart Mill
18 Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard
19 Benjamin Constant
20 Italy and Mazzini
21 Historic Success and Failure
Part IV: Socialism
22 Robert Owen
23 Francois Fourier
24 Karl Marx
Conclusion
Index
