Farewell to freedom : a western genealogy of liberty /
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 wor...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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University of Westminster Press,
2018.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781911534617 1911534610 9781911534600 1911534602 9781911534624 1911534629 9781911534631 1911534637 |