This collection of essays combines a theoretical discussion of unfreedom with analyses of how lack of freedom has been represented in literary history and political thought.
»To Be Unfree« is a collection of essays investigating how political unfreedom has been and can be articulated within the republican tradition of political thought. The book combines a theoretical discussion of how freedom and its opposites have been conceptualized in the republican tradition with a broader perspective on this tradition's impact on the representation of unfreedom in Western literature and cultural history. It thus complicates our understanding of what it means to be unfree and unveils a series of distinctions which also shape our modern notions of freedom.
Christian Dahl
Republicanism Republicanism Political Theory Political Theory History History Liberty Liberty Cultural History Cultural History Politics Politics Political Philosophy Political Philosophy Political Ideologies
Reviewed in:Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 22.01.2015, Matthias LemkeTijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 129/4 (2016), Gerrit Voogt
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