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James Simpson

Permanent Revolution: The reformation and the illiberal roots of liberalism by James Simpson

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August 2019, no. 413
Paul Giles reviews 'Permanent Revolution: The reformation and the illiberal roots of liberalism' by James Simpson

The argument of James Simpson’s Permanent Revolution is that the emergence of liberalism as a cultural and political category in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was shaped by the ‘radically illiberal history of ...

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