Public Freedom / / Dana Villa.

The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In Public Freedom, renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction: Public Freedom Today
  • 2 Tocqueville and Civil Society
  • 3 Hegel, Tocqueville, and "Individualism"
  • 4 Tocqueville and Arendt: Public Freedom, Plurality, and the Preconditions of Liberty
  • 5 Maturity, Paternalism, and Democratic Education in J. S. Mill
  • 6 The Frankfurt School and the Public Sphere
  • 7 Genealogies of Total Domination: Arendt, Adorno, and Auschwitz
  • 8 Foucault and the Dystopian Public
  • 9 Arendt and Heidegger, Again
  • 10 The "Autonomy of the Political"
  • Notes
  • Index