Positive Freedom and the Law

ISBN-13: 9780367691462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 227 str.

Kim Treiger-Bar-Am

Opis

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone, and explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, positive freedom must be understood as inextricably linked to the obligation to respect the autonomy and dignity of others.

Spis treści

Preface; Part One: Freedom and Obligation; 1. Kantian Theory and Jewish Thought: The Encounter between Them; 2. Autonomy as Obligation: Kant and Traditions of Positive Freedom; 3. Obligation as Freedom: Jewish Thought; 4. Dignity, Respect and Expression; Part Two: Positive Freedom in Expression; 5. Authors' Rights and Duties; 6. Women's Prayer in Jerusalem; Concluding Remarks;

O autorze

Dr. Kim Treiger-Bar-Am is a legal academic in Israel. Her education began at Yale University in philosophy and then law, with masters and doctoral studies in law at the University of Oxford. Her main research and teaching interests extend to free-speech theory and doctrine, and the juncture between speech rights and rights of authors and artists under copyright.　Treiger-Bar-Am has published widely and lectured in the United States, Israel, Denmark and England.