This book offers an examination of responses to Edmund Burke from the last decades of the eighteenth century to the present day, ending with the question whether there is still…

Of all the critiques of the Enlightenment, the most telling may be found in the life and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition– illiberal to the core –is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined…