Feedback

X
Farewell to Freedom

Farewell to Freedom

0 Ungluers have Faved this Work
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.

This book is included in DOAB.

Why read this book? Have your say.

You must be logged in to comment.

Rights Information

Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.

Downloads

This work has been downloaded 1085 times via unglue.it ebook links.
  1. 14 - mobi (CC BY-NC-ND) at Unglue.it.
  2. 12 - epub (CC BY-NC-ND) at Unglue.it.
  3. 10 - pdf (CC BY-NC-ND) at Unglue.it.

Keywords

  • Ancient history: to c 500 CE
  • Aristotle
  • autonomy
  • Classical history / classical civilisation
  • Freedom
  • History
  • History & Theory
  • History of Western philosophy
  • History: earliest times to present day
  • Humanities
  • individual
  • KUnlatched
  • Language
  • Language: history & general works
  • Language: reference & general
  • Liberty
  • mastery
  • Philosophy
  • Plato
  • Political control & freedoms
  • Political Science
  • Political Science & Theory
  • Political Science / History & Theory
  • Politics & government
  • Social & political philosophy
  • Society & Social Sciences
  • Theology

Links

DOI: 10.16997/book15
web: http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/10.16997/book15/

Editions

edition cover
edition cover
edition cover
edition cover
edition cover

Share

Copy/paste this into your site: