To Be Unfree: Republicanism and Unfreedom in History, Literature, and Philosophy

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2014

To Be Unfree

Republicanism and Unfreedom in History, Literature, and Philosophy

Edited by: Christian Dahl and Tue Andersen Nexø

Volume 9 in the series Edition Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/transcript.9783839421741

Overview
Contents

About this book

»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.

Author / Editor information

Christian Dahl (PhD) is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen.
Tue Andersen Nexø (PhD) is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen.

Reviews

Reviewed in:
Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 22.01.2015, Matthias Lemke
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 129/4 (2016), Gerrit Voogt

Supplementary Materials

Leseprobe

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Introduction Republican perspectives on freedom’s other in philosophy, history, and literature Christian Dahl and Tue Andersen Nexø Open Access Download PDF	7
Part 1. Conceptual Varieties of Unfreedom
Statelessness, Domination, and Unfreedom Arendt and Pettit in Dialogue Christian F. Rostbøll Open Access Download PDF	19
Freedom as Non-Arbitrariness or as Democratic Self-Rule? A Critique of Contemporary Republicanism Robin Celikates Open Access Download PDF	37
The Unlikely Claimant Sovereignty and Republicanism in Hobbes Amnon Lev Open Access Download PDF	55
Materially Unfree Corruption as a societal diagnosis and the political forms of unfreedom in Machiavelli, Davenant, and Bolingbroke Tue Andersen Nexø Open Access Download PDF	73
Unfreedom and the Republican Tradition in the French Revolution Ruth Scurr Open Access Download PDF	93
Part 2. Cultural Representations of Unfreedom
Occupy Rome Citizenship and Freedom in Early Modern Political Culture, Recent Political Theory, and Coriolanus Oliver Arnold Open Access Download PDF	119
Unfreedom, Servitude, and the Social Bond Susan Maslan Open Access Download PDF	139
Naturally free, politically unfree Voltaire’s Quakers and the modern discourse of human rights Ingvild Hagen Kjørholt Open Access Download PDF	157
Dependency, Corruption, and Aesthetics in Denis Diderot’s Le neveu de Rameau Anne Fastrup Open Access Download PDF	177
Baudelaire and the Government of the Imagination Christopher Prendergast Open Access Download PDF	199
Unfreedom and the Crises of Witnessing A Republican Perspective on the African American Slave Narratives Christian Dahl Open Access Download PDF	213
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	229

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 230
Keywords: Political Theory; History; Liberty; Cultural History; Politics; Political Philosophy; Political Ideologies; Political Science

eBook

Published: September 27, 2014
ISBN: 9783839421741