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020 _a9781911534617
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035 _a(OCoLC)1051782805
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_cMdBmJHUP
050 4 _aJC585
_b.B354 2018
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100 1 _aBaldissone, Ricardo,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFarewell to Freedom
_bA Western Genealogy of Liberty /
_cRicardo Baldissone.
264 1 _bProject Muse,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (xx, 197 pages)
500 _aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aUnderstandings 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 Boetie, 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aLiberty
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aLiberty
_xHistory.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse,
_edistributor.
776 1 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781911534600
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/62784/
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