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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baldissone, Riccardo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : University of Westminster Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.