The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism

by George Armstrong Kelly

Book Overview

This book is the last completed work of one of the most distinguished political theorists and intellectual historians of our time. Focusing on the political ideas and activities of leading French liberals from approximately 1805 into the Second Empire, Professor Kelly presents a distinctive blend of ideological and intellectual history, biography, analysis of French regimes and their changes, and his own reflections concerning the wide and still highly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030722
• ISBN13: 9780521030724
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"