Paul Gordon

Absolute Freedom: An Interdisciplinary Study (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

At a time when the term "freedom" is loosely-and dangerously-bandied about, this work makes the important distinction between positive and negative freedom, and examines the various "zones" of positive freedom (art, religion, academia, politics, speech, etc.)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839985195
• Artikelnr.: 63388351

Autorenporträt

Paul Gordon is a professor of comparative literature/humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his PhD in comparative literature from Yale.

Previous books: The Critical Double; Rapturous Superabundance: Tragedy after Nietzsche; Dial 'M' for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock; Art as the Absolute; Synaesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Positive Freedom: The Absolute Within
Part. I The Idea of Freedom-Chapter One: Positive Freedom: Berlin
Chapter Two: The Reason for Freedom: Kant
Chapter Three: The Essence of Human Freedom: Fichte/Schelling
Chapter Four: The Joy of Freedom: Nietzsche/Sartre/Camus
Part II The Practice of Freedom-Chapter Five: Academic Freedom
Chapter Six: Political Freedom?
Chapter Seven: Free Speech
Chapter Eight: Artistic Freedom: Beethoven
Chapter Nine: Friendship as Freedom.