Freedom and Its Conditions
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-94562-2 (ISBN)
Can any of us ever really be free? Do we follow the rules our society gives us because we want to, or because we are forced to? Discipline, Freedom, Resistance challenges the received wisdom that discipline and freedom are opposite and mutually exclusive. Though it is typically argued that a well-ordered liberal society must discipline its more unruly citizens to maintain freedom for all, Flathman shows how resistance to rules can mean more than criminals breaking laws. Resistance can also mean political protest and political dialogues about what the rules can be. Discipline, Freedom,Resistance draws on Foucault's theories of the self to describe the inner discipline it takes to resist authority-declaring that individuals must sometimes resist forces that wish to destroy freedom, to ensure freedom.
Richard Flathman is the George Armstrong Kelly Memorial Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of eleven books, including The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom which won the APSA Spitz Prize for best book on democratic theory in 1989.
1. Introduction 2. Discipline, Freedom and Resistance: Preliminary Reflections by way of an Engagement with Foucault 3. The Self Against and for Itself: I: Montaigne on Freedom, Discipline and Resistance 4. The Self Against and for Itself: II: Nietzsche as Theorist of Disciplined Freedom of Action and Free-Spiritedness 5. Stuart Hampshire on Freedoms and Unfreedoms of Mind and of Action 6. Stuart Hampshire on Freedoms and Unfreedoms of Action: Discipline, Freedom, and Resistance Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.7.2003 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 380 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-94562-3 / 0415945623 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-94562-2 / 9780415945622 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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