Interesting book in this vein is Inventing the individual: the origins of Western Liberalism by Siedentop: > This short but highly ambitious book asks us to re

Interesting book in this vein is Inventing the individual: the origins of Western Liberalism by Siedentop: > This short but highly ambitious book asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern states are built. Larry Siedentop argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs, liberalism, emerged much earlier than generally recognized, established not in the Renaissance but by the arguments of lawyers and philosophers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. * https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18740986 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18740986