![]() ![]() This translation of Constant's political writings is replete with full editorial apparatus and bibliographic information that will enable anglophone students of liberal thought to engage at first hand with one of its most durable and influential exponents. This translation of Constants speech of 1819 on the liberty of the ancients and the moderns. The novel Adolphe has hitherto been Constant's only work freely available outside France, emphasising his importance within European Romanticism and his centrality to French literary development in the nineteenth century. His writings are widely regarded as one of the classical formulations of modern liberal doctrine, and Constant's own closeness to the Anglo-Saxon political tradition renders their translation into English particularly appropriate. ![]() a recent edition of Benjamin Constants major political writings, Marcel. ution of 1789, and a leading member of the liberal opposition to Napoleon and, subsequently, to the restored Bourbon monarchy. France is its disdain for the political works of the great French romantics. A Swiss protestant by birth, Constant was a prominent figure in French political life in the aftermath of the revol. ![]() This is the first English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant, one of the most important of modern French political theorists and writers. Edited and translated by Fontana, Biancamaria ![]()
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