Farewell to Freedom
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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-378482025-07-31T14:55:42Z Farewell to Freedom Baldissone, Riccardo Political Science History & Theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory 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. 2021-02-10T14:49:35Z 2021-02-10T14:49:35Z 2020-12-15T14:29:53Z 2018 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/44167 9781911534624 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37848 eng open access image/png image/png n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44167/1/external_content.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/44167/1/external_content.epub University of Westminster Press University of Westminster Press https://doi.org/10.16997/book15 https://doi.org/10.16997/book15 ebf00090-01f8-4204-9e78-018b9f254c60 Knowledge Unlatched 9781911534624 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services University of Westminster Press open access |
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