The Oxford Handbook of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780199989423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 544 str.

David Schmidtz; Carmen Pavel

Opis

The Oxford Handbook of Freedom crafts the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers, as well some historians and political theorists.

Recenzje

As a masterpiece of the liberty tradition, The Oxford Handbook of Freedom is a refreshing alternative to the voluminous literature dominated by the debates over John Rawls's works. Rawls's liberty principle and political liberalism have been for decades the most discussed concepts in political philosophy. Philosophers explored in great detail the theoretical subtleties of Rawls's ideas and their relationships with other theories: utilitarian, contractarian, Kantian, Marxist, feminist, communitarian, postmodern, and others. The theoretical explorations also strongly affected the domain of political doctrines, where liberal egalitarian and social democratic ideals colonized public political discourse. Other conceptions of liberty and liberalism have been pushed under the shadow of that predominant paradigm. The Handbook demonstrates that the leading paradigm is not the only one, and, apparently, not the best one.

O autorze

David Schmidtz is Kendrick Prof of Philosophy (SBS), Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic (College of Management) at The University of Arizona Carmen Pavel is Lecturer in International Politics and Director of the BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Programme at King's College London