Larry Siedentop

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Larry Alan Siedentop CBE (* 1936 in Chicago ) is an American political scientist, historian and philosopher. He held the first chair in the history of ideas at the University of Sussex in Falmer . He then taught political philosophy at Keble College of Oxford University in Oxford .

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Siedentop was particularly concerned with the French liberalism of the 19th century. He is also a biographer of Alexis de Tocqueville and author of the book Democracy in Europe , published in 2000 and translated into German in 2002. In it he compares European democracy and unification with the development of the US state. He also worked on the Financial Times . In 2014 his latest work, Inventing the Individual, was published. The Origins of Western Liberalism , which was released in 2015 in German translation.

The invention of the individual. Liberalism and the Western World

Siedentop describes, justifies and proves in his 476-page book that Western liberalism and secularism arose from Christian beliefs such as equality and freedom. Through charity and persuasiveness, the Christian faith spread in the late Roman Empire and then shaped European culture significantly. In addition to education, churches and monasteries had also promoted equality and individuality of people and broke the ancient family structure under the authoritarian leadership of the pater familias with its religiously motivated inequality. These moral values, which have been achieved over long periods of time, are now endangered by fundamentalism and authoritarian regimes.

For antiquity, Siedentop mainly refers to the work The Ancient State of the French historian Fustel de Coulanges , for early Christianity to the Irish historian and Augustine specialist Peter Brown and for the Middle Ages to the French writer François Guizot . His theses met with a great response, on the one hand through broad approval and on the other hand through criticism and rejection. Critics have accused him of using too many secondary sources, but Siedentop justified his choice of sources.

Fonts

  • Tocqueville , 1994
  • Francois Guizot, The History of Civilization in Europe. Edited with an introduction by Larry Siedentop, 1997
  • Democracy in Europe , Penguin Press 2000
  • Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism , Allen Lane, 2014, ISBN 0-713-99644-7
    • The invention of the individual. Liberalism and the Western World , Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-94886-8

Web links

Commons : Larry Siedentop  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/larry-siedentop/demokratie-in-europa.html
  2. ↑ Guido Kalberer: Revolutionary Christianity. The American philosopher and political scientist Larry Siedentop emphasizes the importance of Christian thought for Western liberalism. A long overdue rehabilitation. Berner Zeitung January 9, 2016
  3. ^ Clemens Klünemann: Reviews. ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Christ in the Present , February 14, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christ-in-der-gegenwart.de
  4. ↑ http://www.inkultura-online.de/siedentop.html
  5. ↑ Anne Christin Klotz: Freedom has a reason. pro - Christian media magazine , Wetzlar January 2016, pages 12–13
  6. ↑ http://www.prozukunft.org/v1/2015/12/siedentop/
  7. ↑ http : //www.b- Republik.de/archiv/christliche-erfindung-liberalismus Marc Schattenmann: Christian invention of liberalism. Republic Debate Magazine 3.2014
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SURNAME Siedentop, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siedentop, Larry Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist, historian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago