Freedom and the Construction of Europe

ISBN-13: 9781108817783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 421 str.

Quentin Skinner; Martin Van Gelderen

Opis

An internationally distinguished team of contributors explore the richness, diversity and complexity of ideas about freedom across early modern Europe, shedding fresh light on the tension between religious freedom and constitutional liberties, debates about the relationship between free persons and free states, and freedom as the ideal of citizenship.

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Introduction Quentin Skinner; Part I. Free Persons and Freedom of Action: 1. Human freedom and Jesuit moral theology Annabel Brett; 2. Freedom and self-possession: the case of Montaigne's Essais Felicity Green; 3. Autonomy and inner freedom: Lipsius and the revival of stoicism Freya Sierhuis; 4. Freedom of the will as a basis for equality: Descartes, Princess Elisabeth and Poullain de la Barre Martina Reuter; 5. Language as a means and an obstacle to freedom: the case of Moses Mendelssohn Avi Lifschitz; Part II. Free Citizens and the State: 6. Liberty and citizenship in early modern English political discourse Iain Hampsher-Monk; 7. Free elections and freedom of speech in English republican thought Antti Tahvanainen; 8. John Milton's free citizens and the politics of the family Rosanna Cox; 9. Vattel's Rousseau: Jus Gentium and the natural liberty of states Theodore Christov; 10. The state of freedom: Kant and his conservative critics Reidar Maliks; 11. Freedom and state action in German Enlightenment thought Alexander Schmidt; 12. The political conditions of free agency: the case of Mary Wollstonecraft Lena Halldenius; Part III. Freedom and the Limits of Europe: 13. The idea of freedom in missionary writings about the new world Catherine Ballériaux; 14. From European to cosmopolitan freedom Fonna Forman; 15. Is political freedom an Islamic value? Michael Cook.