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From the Center for Humanities at CUNY:

Three Revolutions of Liberty: England, America, and France
Philippe Raynaud, Nadia Urbinati, Jeremy Jennings, and Richard Wolin
Center for the Humanities, The City University of New York, 13 April 2011

400 pages, ISBN: 9782130568742

Over the last few decades, the revival of political liberalism has gone hand in hand with a reassessment of the commonalities and differences subtending the eighteenth-century trans-Atlantic revolutions. A comparative perspective allows us to better appreciate the standpoints of both the revolutions’ leading intellectual progenitors (Locke, Montesquieu, and Jefferson) as well as of their leading critics (Edmund Burke, Madame de Stael, and Alexis de Tocqueville). In Trois révolutions de la liberté, Angleterre, États-Unis, France (2009), Philippe Raynaud, one of the protagonists of the French liberal revival, has fashioned a unique interpretation of the intellectual lineage that defines this trans-Atlantic revolutionary heritage – a heritage that, in so many ways, continues to define the central terms of modern politics. Join Prof. Raynaud (Political Science, University of Paris II), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science, Columbia University), Jeremy Jennings (Political Science, Queen Mary, University College London), and Richard Wolin (Political Science and
History, The Graduate Center, CUNY) for a vigorous debate on the
implications and relevance of the revolutionary legacy for both the history
of ideas as well as contemporary politics.