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Benjamin Constant: A Biography
Contributor(s): Wood, Dennis (Author)
ISBN: 0415513154     ISBN-13: 9780415513159
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $54.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 1520
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.09 lbs) 352 pages
 
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For forty years I have defended the same principle: freedom in everything, in religion, in philosophy, in literature, in industry, in politics - and by freedom I mean the triumph of the individual.'
Constant thus summarized his beliefs at the end of his life. A political theorist and a passionate defender of individual liberty, he was also the author of one of the greatest French novels of psychological insight, Adolphe. In a major new biography Dennis Wood traces the development of Constant as a writer centrally preoccupied with the problematics of freedom, not only in the fields of politics and religious belief but also in his own troubled relationship with several women.