Farewell to Freedom A Western Genealogy of Liberty / Ricardo Baldissone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baldissone, Riccardo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberty--Philosophy.

Liberty.

Liberty--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 197 pages) : PDF, digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

1-911534-62-9

1-911534-60-2

9781911534617

1911534610

9781911534600

1911534602

OCLC:

1051782805

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access