@article{f03600ed593b44eba8a009aa8e009aa5,
title = "Editors{\textquoteright} introduction",
author = "Maria Dimova-Cookson and Avital Simhony",
note = "Funding Information: Most of the papers in this special issue were presented first at a workshop {\textquoteleft}200 Years of Modern Liberty: Bicentenary Celebration of Benjamin Constant{\textquoteright}s Lecture on Ancient and Modern Liberty{\textquoteright} held in Durham in December 2019. It was sponsored by the Modern Liberty specialist group of the Political Studies Association and the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University. In his opening address professor Jeremy Jennings of Kings College London listed three reasons for discounting Constant{\textquoteright}s relevance today, and three reasons for reasserting it. Starting with the negative count, we firstly need to acknowledge that Constant{\textquoteright}s claim that trade would supersede war in modern time has been proven wrong by history. This was a great illusion of his age. Secondly, religion played a central role in Constant{\textquoteright}s ideas, but it does not have such a place in political theory arguments today. And thirdly, modernity is associated with European colonialism and the slave trade, so we can no longer embrace it in a non-critical fashion. ",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1080/01916599.2022.2056334",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "48",
pages = "193--195",
journal = "History of European Ideas",
issn = "0191-6599",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "3",
}