The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century

In this episode, Max Skjönsberg speaks with Helena Rosenblatt, who is professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of numerous books such as Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract 1749–1762 (1997) and Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008). Moreover, she is the editor of Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010) and the Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009). Her latest book, published by Princeton University Press in 2018, is entitled The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty First Century.