`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.  Meer

`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.  Meer

"Sommige mensen zouden nooit verliefd zijn geweest, als zij niet over de liefde hadden horen praten," merkte La Rochfoucauld al in de 17e eeuw op. Hoe toepasselijk is deze uitspraak niet op Adolphe: de jongeman, die zich verveelt aan het hof van een Duitse keurvorst, volgt het amoureuze voorbeeld van een vriend, en meent verliefd te worden op de tien jaar oudere Ellénore.  Meer

Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman.  Meer

This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant, one of the most important of modern French political theorists and writers.  Meer

In these two remarkable works, a brilliant, vain, long-suffering Frenchman describes the first twenty years of his life and their culmination in a tortured love affair with a possessive older woman.  Meer

This riverrun edition publishes Walker's translation and Constant's preface in a new edition here for the first time since 1817  Meer

Die Formierung des kontinentalen Liberalismus in Auseinandersetzung mit der Französischen Revolution lässt sich exemplarisch am Fall Benjamin Constant nachvollziehen.  Meer

This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.  Meer

This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.  Meer

This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism, and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality, sociability, and conceptions of the "self" in modern liberal thought.  Meer