Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory - Couverture souple

Hirschmann, Nancy J.

 
9780691129891: Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691129894 ISBN 13 : 9780691129891
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2007

Synopsis

In Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory, Nancy Hirschmann demonstrates not merely that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis but that they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood at all. Through rigorous close readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, and Mill, Hirschmann establishes and examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom. Building on a social constructivist model of freedom that she developed in her award-winning book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom, she makes in her new book another original and important contribution to political and feminist theory.

Despite the prominence of "state of nature" ideas in modern political theory, Hirschmann argues, theories of freedom actually advance a social constructivist understanding of humanity. By rereading "human nature" in light of this insight, Hirschmann uncovers theories of freedom that are both more historically accurate and more relevant to contemporary politics. Pigeonholing canonical theorists as proponents of either "positive" or "negative" liberty is historically inaccurate, she demonstrates, because theorists deploy both conceptions of freedom simultaneously throughout their work.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nancy J. Hirschmann is the R. Jean Brownlee Endowed Term Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book The Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom (Princeton) won the 2004 Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics from the American Political Science Association.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691129894
ISBN 13 
9780691129891
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
354
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780691129884: Gender, Class, and Freedom in Modern Political Theory

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ISBN 10 :  0691129886 ISBN 13 :  9780691129884
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2007
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