Bücher von Alan Kahan

This study analyzes parliamentary suffrage debates in England, France and Germany, showing that liberals throughout Europe used a distinctive political language, 'the discourse of capacity', to limit political participation. This language defined liberals, and they used it to define and limit full citizenship.

This treatise links three 19th-century philosophers in a single intellectual and ideological tradition by identifying similarities in their thought. The author also attempts to correct prevalent misconceptions about 19th-century liberalism.