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Public Freedom.

The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In Public Freedom, renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Villa, Dana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Public Freedom Today; 2 Tocqueville and Civil Society; 3 Hegel, Tocqueville, and "Individualism"; 4 Tocqueville and Arendt: Public Freedom, Plurality, and the Preconditions of Liberty; 5 Maturity, Paternalism, and Democratic Education in J.S. Mill; 6 The Frankfurt School and the Public Sphere; 7 Genealogies of Total Domination: Arendt, Adorno, and Auschwitz; 8 Foucault and the Dystopian Public; 9 Arendt and Heidegger, Again; 10 The "Autonomy of the Political" Reconsidered; Notes; Index.