Larry Siedentop
Autore di Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism
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Larry Siedentop is Faculty Lecturer in Political Thought in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Keble College.
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- Siedentop, Larry Alan
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The idea that things changed completely over night with the coming of the Renaissance is a little hard to believe so, I am very comfortable with Mr Siedentop's theory. The problem comes with the plea in the epilogue for secularism to link with Christianity in the fight against Islam. I have no wish to fight for Christianity or indeed against Islam.
Christianity was (notice the tense) integral to Western development but has become less and less significant in the modern day. I also felt that the author was a little too secure in his knowledge that individualism equates to equality.… (altro)