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SUMMARY:Balzan-Skinner Lecture and Colloquium 2012 - Dr Tim Stanton and ot
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DESCRIPTION:The third Balzan-Skinner lecture and colloquium explores one c
 rooked and circuitous route by which John Locke was claimed by liberalism 
 and came over time to be refashioned in its image.  For it was Locke's fat
 e to become the hero of what we might call 'the fable of liberalism'\, the
  story which liberalism recounts to itself about its origins and purposes 
 in enacting and reproducing its preferred ways of thinking about the human
  condition and the nature and limits of political life.  This fable begins
  with Hobbes\, and charts a more or less inevitable process which culminat
 es in 'modernity' - the triumph of reason over superstition\, of the indiv
 idual over the inherited order\, of the rule of law over the rule of man\,
  of freedom over authority - and the concomitant faltering and waning of a
 uthority in all its guises in modern societies.   The fable of liberalism\
 , like most fables\, is designed to charm the mind.  It does not so much i
 gnore or supersede the facts as organize them selectively with a view to p
 erpetuating a particular view of things\, a view which associates modernit
 y with reason\, individualism\, the rule of law\, freedom and every good t
 hing in life\, refashioning the history of political thought and the inter
 nal political and social mechanisms of liberal society alike in its own im
 age.\n\nThe fee is £20 (includes lunch and tea/coffee) with a reduced fee
  of £10 for students.The deadline for booking is Monday 1 October 2012.\n
 \nFor more information see: "http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1682":URL
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
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