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Freedom and Culture in Western Society (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Freedom and Culture in Western Society (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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Critically examining the conceptions of freedom of some of the
leading contemporary philosophers from Isaiah Berlin to Charles
Taylor, this text explores the value and significance that freedom
has acquired in our political consciousness. It looks specifically
at: positive and negative freedom; freedom of the individual;
freedom and society; emancipation and paternalism; and freedom and
cultural politics on a theoretical level. The author aims to show
that it is possible to have a discussion and reach a consensus on
the meaning of contested concepts such as freedom and autonomy.
Crucially, he addresses the question of how this conception might
be applied to the real world, offering practical ways of increasing
individual freedom in modern liberal Western democracies. First
published in Dutch in 1991 this book won the "Pieter de la Court"
award of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts Sciences and the
1992 political science award of the Netherlands Political Science
Association. It has been updated to include material from the
United States, Great Britain, France and Sweden as well as from the
Netherlands.
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