Inventing the Individual : The Origins of Western Liberalism - Larry Siedentop Paperback / softback from the early 1800s the

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Inventing the Individual : The Origins of Western Liberalism - Larry Siedentop Paperback / softback from the early 1800s theHere, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism's usual account of itself: its emergence in opposition to religion in the early modern era. Larry Siedentop argues instead that liberal thought is, in its underlying assumptions, the offspring of the Church. "It is a magnificent work of intellectual, psychological and spiritual history. It is hard to decide which