A Social Theory of Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780367361518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str.

Mariam Thalos

Opis

This book rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and, instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely aligned with questions of social identity, self-development in contexts of intimate relationships, and social solidarity.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Freedom is a logic  1. An existential prelude  2. Freedom worth wanting  3. The grammar of experience and the logic of freedom  4. Existential syllogisms  Part II: Beyond the logic of freedom  5. The difference a new conception of action makes  6. Paradoxes of freedom  Part III: Existential foundations of social science  7. Self-making  8. Love relationships: The space for self-making  9. Alliance and solidarity  Conclusion

O autorze

Mariam Thalos is Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA