Farewell to freedom : a western genealogy of liberty /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baldissone, Riccardo
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Westminster Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Liberty > History.
Liberty > Philosophy.
Liberté > Histoire.
Liberté > Philosophie.
Language: history & general works.
Classical history > classical civilisation.
History of Western philosophy.
Social & political philosophy.
Political science & theory.
Political control & freedoms.
Political Science > History & Theory.
Liberty.
Individual
Theology
Mastery
Liberty
Autonomy
Freedom
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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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