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"In this book I have tried to discover what thet social creed which we have since learned to call Liberalism meant to the eighteenth-century thinkers who formulated and popularized it. If this creed is much blown upon to-day, that may be due in part to its intrinsic defects as a system of thought; in part to the inadequacy of a fighting creed made in a comparatively..." --Taken from preface.

El profesor Mayer nos ofrece m s que una historia del pensamiento pol tico. Es un intento de descubrir lo que hay de com n en la tradici n europea -occidental- del pensamiento pol tico. Este libro es producto de un momento de crisis en esa tradici n, de una crisis que es acaso la m s grave que haya sufrido en el curso de su historia.