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Bertrand de Jouvenel’s Philosophy of Individual Liberty

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Published/Copyright: December 5, 2022

Abstract

I examine Bertrand de Jouvenel’s understanding of individual liberty as it develops in his three postwar works of political philosophy: On Power, Sovereignty, and The Pure Theory of Politics. In doing so, I shed new light on his place in the French tradition of liberty.


Corresponding author: Kevin S. Honeycutt, Mercer University, Macon, USA, E-mail:

Funding source: Mercer University

Award Identifier / Grant number: Unassigned

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Daniel J. Mahoney, John R. Braun, Charlotte Thomas, Nikolai Wenzel, Robert Good, Joseph Payne, David Swigart, and the 2021 Junior and Senior Seminars of Mercer University for reading previous versions of this essay.

  1. Research funding: This work was funded by Mercer University.

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Received: 2022-11-08
Accepted: 2022-11-09
Published Online: 2022-12-05

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