The Aporia of Freedom.

• Superior document: Theory Workshop
• Author: Roch Kaczmarczyk, Michał.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Theory Workshop
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (448 pages)

The book tackles the fundamental issue underlying all social theory by critically scrutinizing philosophical approaches prevalent in Western thought. After all, the problem of freedom founds the two key elements grounding any overarching reflection on social matters: causality and agency.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Visions of Freedom -- 1.1 Freedom as an Illusion: David Hume -- 1.2 Freedom as Belonging: Baruch Spinoza -- 1.3 Freedom as an Assumption: Immanuel Kant -- Chapter 2 The Negated Aporia of Freedom -- 2.1 Freedom as Social Belonging: Émile Durkheim -- 2.2 Freedom as a Theoretical Problem: Talcott Parsons -- 2.3 Freedom as a Practical Problem: Niklas Luhmann -- Chapter 3 The Acknowledged Aporia of Freedom -- 3.1 The Renaissance of Freedom: Rational Choice Theory -- 3.2 Implications of the Subjective Perspective: Raymond Boudon -- 3.3 The Choice of Values: Max Weber -- Chapter 4 At the Source of Freedom -- 4.1 Basic Anxiety: Social Phenomenology -- 4.2 Freedom between People: Erving Goffman -- 4.3 Reconstructions of Subjectivity: Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault -- Chapter 5 Freedom by Belief -- 5.1 Belief in Scientific Community: Charles Sanders Peirce -- 5.2 Belief in God: William James -- 5.3 Belief in the Act: George Herbert Mead -- Chapter 6 Freedom as a Challenge -- 6.1 The Human Reality: Karl Marx -- 6.2 Theories of Practice: Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens -- 6.3 Freedom and Democracy: Antonio Gramsci, Cornelius Castoriadis -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.