"An intellectual biography of ???Elie Hal???evy that examines the entire range of Hal???evy's works, as well as the contexts within which these works were written: his neo-Kantian philosophical orientation; his incisive analysis of British Utilitarianism (an analysis still debated by historians of political thought); his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair; his stance of "socialist liberalism" in the years before World War I; his thesis about the importance of religion and mores in modern England (the so-called "Hal???evy ...
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"An intellectual biography of ???Elie Hal???evy that examines the entire range of Hal???evy's works, as well as the contexts within which these works were written: his neo-Kantian philosophical orientation; his incisive analysis of British Utilitarianism (an analysis still debated by historians of political thought); his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair; his stance of "socialist liberalism" in the years before World War I; his thesis about the importance of religion and mores in modern England (the so-called "Hal???evy thesis"); his principled stance during World War I; his new views of socialism and nationalism after the war; and his arguments concerning the era of tyrannies"--
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