Using the history of political thought and real-world political
contexts, including South Africa and the recent global financial
crisis, this book argues that power is integral to freedom. It
demonstrates how freedom depends upon power, and contends that
liberty for all citizens is best maintained if conceived as power
through political representation. Against those who de-politicise
freedom through a romantic conception of 'the people' and faith in
supposedly independent judicial and political institutions,
Lawrence Hamilton argues that real modern freedom can only be
achieved through representative and participative mechanisms that
limit domination and empower classes and groups who become
disempowered in the conflicts that inevitably pervade politics.
This is a sophisticated contribution to contemporary political
theory that will be of interest to scholars and students of
history, politics, philosophy, economics, sociology, development
studies and Southern African studies.
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