Benjamin Constant: A Biography

by Dennis Wood

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415513154
• ISBN13: 9780415513159
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"