Commentary on Filangieri's Work

by Benjamin Constant

Book Overview

Commentary on Filangieri's Work addresses the principal political and social questions that Benjamin Constant, one of the most important liberal thinkers of the nineteenth century, ever discussed. This translation will help give the work its deserved importance in political theory.

Commentary is founded on the view that government should maintain a strictly limited role in society; "The functions of government are purely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865978832
• ISBN13: 9780865978836
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"