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Freedom : reassessments and rephrasings / Jose V. Ciprut, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberty--Congresses.
- Liberty.
- Liberty--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Liberty--Religious aspects--Congresses.
- Liberty--History--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (340 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- New interdisciplinary perspectives on the theory and practice of freedom, with field-specific studies.Some philosophers conceive freedom as a state; others view it as an ideal. A songwriter sees it as a way of life: "Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free." The embattled statesman and the political idealist perceive causal links among personal freedoms, societal democracy, and global peace. In this cross-disciplinary volume, the contributors reassess and rephrase the conceptualizations and theorizations of freedom and their applicability to daily life. Framed by historical contexts, their field-specific studies help reconcile theory and practice. Their shared and unique ideational framework can be paraphrased in six words, a question mark, and a (muted) exclamation point: Freedom? Beware what you wish for (!).
- Contents:
- Freedom? : the very thought of it! / Jose V. Ciprut
- Freedom and the free man / Jeremy McInerney
- Boxed in, boxed out : whither freedom? / Elvira Arcenas
- Freedoms lost, freedoms regained / David R. Williams and Jacques P. Barber
- Degrees of freedom : jazz and the art of improvisation / William Parberry
- Freedom and risk / Paul R. Kleindorfer
- Liberation and freedom in Jewish liturgy and practice / Levi Y. Haskelevich
- Human freedom : a Christian understanding of salvation as liberation / Roger Haight
- Theorizing freedom / Nancy J. Hirschmann
- Freedom and culture / Greg Urban
- Shades of freedom in America / Sheldon Hackney
- Outside in/inside out : the ordering of liberty in a globalizing international political economy / Viet D. Dinh
- Beyond ideology, toward a new ethic of freedom / Kevin Cameron
- Freedom? Beware what you wish for(!) / Jose V. Ciprut.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30987-4
- 0-262-27037-4
- 1-4416-0442-1
- OCLC:
- 317117686
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