Dennis Wood

Benjamin Constant (eBook, ePUB)

A Biography

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

`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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134977659
• Artikelnr.: 38267532

Autorenporträt

Dennis Wood

Inhaltsangabe

1. `The Grief That Does Not Speak': Constant and his Father (1767
1783) 2. `The Charms of Friendship' (1783
1785) 3. Isabelle de Charriere (1785
1787) 4. Escape (1787
1788) 5. The Brunswick Years (1788
1794) 6. Germaine de Stael (1794
1800) 7. `The Intermittence of the Heart' (1800
1806) 8. `Italiam, Italiam' (1806
1812) 9. The End of an Empire (1812
1816) 10. Adolphe (1816
1819) 11. Apotheosis (1819
1830) Epilogue