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Sex, lies and revolutions; the intellectual in love and politics.(Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments)(Book Review)
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments, by Benjamin Constant, translated by Dennis O'Keeffe; Liberty Fund, 2004, $27.
ENDEARING is not the first word that springs to mind to describe the French writer Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)--better known for Adolphe, his novel of anguished passion among the Enlightened, than for his classics of political liberalism. But in his preface to his superb translation--clear, accurate and graceful--of Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments, Dennis O'Keeffe refers to Constant's "extraordinarily powerful and endearing mind". By the time you finish reading it, you see what he means.
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...grudgingly way to the other in a series of shocks and jolts. This same plight must have befallen both Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant to an even greater extent, one might suppose, owing to their foreign extraction (both were of Swiss parentage) and...
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Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, written in 1806 and published twelve years later, has often been read as a fictionalized confession, or at the...
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