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1 online resource (xx, 197 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific language context. From Homeric poems to contemporary works, the author traces the words that express the various notions of freedom in Classical Greek, Latin, and medieval and modern European idioms. Examining writers as varied as Plato, Aristotle, Luther, La Boétie, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Stirner, Nietzsche, and Foucault among others, this theoretical mapping shows old and new boundaries of the horizon of freedom. The book suggests the possibility of transcending these boundaries on the basis of a different theorization of human interactions, which constructs individual and collective subjects as processes rather than entities. This construction shifts and disseminates the very locus of freedom, whose vocabulary would be better recast as a relational middle path between autonomous and heteronomous alternatives. |
| Language |
English. |
| Contents |
To the benevolent reader: a preliminary note -- On quotations -- Introduction -- Antiquities before christianities. Eleutheria ; The Greek constellation of freedoms ; The Roman constellation of freedoms -- The Christian world until the threshold of modernities. Christianities before the papal revolution ; The papal revolution and its aftermath -- High modernities. Hobbes' invention of modern freedom ; Freedom and revolution -- Low modernities. The Hegel effect ; Nietzschean dynamite: the first detonation -- Farewell to freedom. The dissolution of the notion of freedom ; The dissolution of the subject of freedom ; In-between autonomy and heteronomy: dianomy ; Otherwise than freedom: throughdom -- Selected bibliography -- Index. |
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Liberty -- History.
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Liberty -- Philosophy.
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Liberté -- Histoire.
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Liberté -- Philosophie.
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Language: history & general works.
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Classical history -- classical civilisation.
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History of Western philosophy.
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Social & political philosophy.
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Political science & theory.
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Political control & freedoms.
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Political Science -- History & Theory.
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Liberty
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Liberty -- Philosophy
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Individual |
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Theology |
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Mastery |
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Liberty |
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Autonomy |
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Freedom |
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Electronic books.
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History
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| Other Form: |
1911534610 |
| ISBN |
9781911534617 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534610 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911534624 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534629 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911534631 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534637 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911534600 (paperback) |
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1911534602 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
10.16997/book15 doi |
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AU@ 000069302967 |
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CHBIS 011406140 |
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CHVBK 566798816 |
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UKMGB 019437719 |
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AU@ 000063971601 |
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