Conceptions of Liberty in Political Philosophy - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312160348 ISBN 13 : 9780312160340

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Présentation de l'éditeur

At the heart of every well-developed political theory in the Western tradition is the concept of liberty or freedom. In this authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays, leading contemporary philosophers explore these conceptions from the time of the ancient Greeks to the present day. They examine and interpret the views of Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, J.S. Mill, Marx, T.H. Green, Hayek, Oakeshott, Arendt, Rawls, Habermas, and Sir Isaiah Berlin. Animating the discussion throughout is Berlin's distinction between 'negative' and 'positive' liberty.

This systematic historical appraisal is conducted by a number of eminent thinkers in the field of political philosophy. Altogether, these essays constitute an account of a key topic which students across a wide range of disciplines - including the political and social sciences, alongside philosophy itself - will find of importance.

Biographie de l'auteur

Zbigniew Pelczynski is a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, and Lecturer in Politics at Oxford University. He was Visiting Professor at Yale University in 1976, and at Harvard University in 1983-4. Dr. Pelczynski has edited two volumes of Hegel's political writing, and is joint editor of a history of Poland.

John Gray is Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College, Oxford. He is the author of Mill on Liberty: a defence (1983).

Détails de l'édition

• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0312160348
• ISBN 13: 9780312160340
• Reliure: Relié
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