Richard E. Flathman: Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism and Opalescent Individuality

ISBN-13: 9781032097701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

P. E. Digeser

Opis

This work helps highlights how the innovations in Flathman's thought have shaped the field of political theory and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Spis treści

Introduction: Paige E. Digeser

PART I

Equality, Authority, Rights and Philosophy as Therapy

1 Equality and Generalization: A Formal Analysis (1967)

2 Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language and Political and Social Philosophy (1973)

3 Authority and the "Surrender" of Political Judgment (1980)

4 Liberalism and Authority (1989)

5 The Theory of Rights and the Practice of Abortion (1989)

PART II

Situating and Disciplining Freedom

6 Kinds of Freedom (1987)

7 Is the Positive Theory of Freedom a Theory of Freedom? (1987)

8 Situating Freedom (1987)

9 Control, Resistance, and Freedom (2003)

Part III

Opacity, Liberalism, and Individuality

10 Individuality, Plurality, and Liberalism (1992)

11 Of Liberty, Authority and Power (1993)

12 Strains in and Around Liberal Theory (1998)

13 Here and Now, There and Then, Always and Everywhere: Reflections Concerning Political Theory and the Study/Writing of Political Thought (2006)

An interview with Richard E. Flathman:
Questions from P. E. Digeser

Index

O autorze

P.E. Digeser is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Our Politics, Our Selves? (1996), Political Forgiveness (2001), and Friendship Reconsidered: What it Means and How it Matters to Politics (2016).