Farewell to Freedom : : A Western Genealogy of Liberty / / Ricardo Baldissone.
"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 Boétie, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Stirner, Nietzsche,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : University of Westminster Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 197 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of 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.