Elie Halévy and philosophical radicalism

Ludovic Frobert ()
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Ludovic Frobert: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: "In 1995, the Presses universitaires de France re-published (for the very first time in French) Elie Halévy's classic book La formation du radicalisme philosophique (first edition 1901–4). Startlingly, in the afterword of volume 1, Jean-Pierre Dupuy explained that even if this book on Bentham and his school of thought has been considered a classic and one of the first serious historical studies in any language, Halévy had been a "bad interpreter" of utilitarianism. (...)"

Keywords: France; 19th Century; Elie Halévy; Utilitarianism; Liberalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in Modern Intellectual History, 2015, 12 (1), pp.127-150. ⟨10.1017/S1479244314000377⟩

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DOI: 10.1017/S1479244314000377

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