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Here, 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. Beginning with a moral revolution in the first centuries CE, when notions about equality and huma...

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This ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west. The invention of a new, equal social role, the individual, gradually displaced the claims of family, tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation. Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and gov...

Was sind eigentlich die viel beschworenen westlichen Werte? Wann entstand die Idee des freien Individuums, auf der unsere Gesellschaft bis heute basiert? Das anregende, große historische Zeiträume überspannende Buch gibt überraschende Antworten auf zentrale Fragen der abendländischen Identität. Mehr denn je geraten unsere bisher für selbstverständlich gehaltenen westlichen Werte unter Druck. Der sich rasant ausbreitende islamische Fundamental...

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Taking inspiration from the heated discussions that preceded the birth of federal government in the United States, Larry Siedentop investigates what we can reasonably expect and what we have to fear from a united Europe. Despite the profound hostility between skeptics and proponents of a united Europe, the outlines of serious public debate have barely been sketched. While skeptics talk of national sovereignty and invoke the spirit of wartime r...