Freedom and the Construction of Europe

Herausgeber: Skinner, Quentin; Gelderen, Martin Van

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 904g
• ISBN-13: 9781107033078
• ISBN-10: 1107033071
• Artikelnr.: 37453859

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Quentin Skinner; Part I. Free Persons and Freedom of Action:
1. Human freedom and Jesuit moral theology Annabel Brett; 2. Freedom and
self-possession: the case of Montaigne's Essais Felicity Green; 3. Autonomy
and inner freedom: Lipsius and the revival of stoicism Freya Sierhuis; 4.
Freedom of the will as a basis for equality: Descartes, Princess Elisabeth
and Poullain de la Barre Martina Reuter; 5. Language as a means and an
obstacle to freedom: the case of Moses Mendelssohn Avi Lifschitz; Part II.
Free Citizens and the State: 6. Liberty and citizenship in early modern
English political discourse Iain Hampsher-Monk; 7. Free elections and
freedom of speech in English republican thought Antti Tahvanainen; 8. John
Milton's free citizens and the politics of the family Rosanna Cox; 9.
Vattel's Rousseau: Jus Gentium and the natural liberty of states Theodore
Christov; 10. The state of freedom: Kant and his conservative critics
Reidar Maliks; 11. Freedom and state action in German Enlightenment thought
Alexander Schmidt; 12. The political conditions of free agency: the case of
Mary Wollstonecraft Lena Halldenius; Part III. Freedom and the Limits of
Europe: 13. The idea of freedom in missionary writings about the new world
Catherine Ballériaux; 14. From European to cosmopolitan freedom Fonna
Forman; 15. Is political freedom an Islamic value? Michael Cook.