Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism

by Marc Mulholland

In 1842 Henrich Heine, the German poet, wrote that the bourgeoisie, 'obsessed by a nightmare apprehension of disaster' and 'an instinctive dread of communism', were driven against their better instincts into tolerating absolutist government. Theirs was a 'politics motivated by fear'. Over the next 150 years, the middle classes were repeatedly accused of betraying liberty for fear of 'red revolution'. The failure of the revolutions of 1848, conservative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199653577
• ISBN13: 9780199653577
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"