Freedom and Its Conditions - Couverture souple

Flathman, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415945623 ISBN 13 : 9780415945622

Editeur : Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Can any of us ever really be free? Do we follow the rules our society gives us because we want to, or because we are forced to? Discipline, Freedom, Resistance challenges the received wisdom that discipline and freedom are opposite and mutually exclusive. Though it is typically argued that a well-ordered liberal society must discipline its more unruly citizens to maintain freedom for all, Flathman shows how resistance to rules can mean more than criminals breaking laws. Resistance can also mean political protest and political dialogues about what the rules can be. Discipline, Freedom, Resistance draws on Foucault's theories of the self to describe the inner discipline it takes to resist authority-declaring that individuals must sometimes resist forces that wish to destroy freedom, to ensure freedom.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Richard Flathman is the George Armstrong Kelly Memorial Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of eleven books, including The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom which won the APSA Spitz Prize for best book on democratic theory in 1989.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415945623
• ISBN 13: 9780415945622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
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