Freedom: Political, Metaphysical, Negative and Positive (Hardcover)

Isaiah Berlin made a now classic distinction between negative and positive conceptions of freedom. In this book Yildiz Silier introduces a fresh way of looking at these conceptions and presents a new defence of the positive conception of freedom. Revealing how the internal debate between various versions of negative freedom give rise to hybrid conceptions of freedom which in turn are superseded by various versions of the positive conception of freedom, Silier concludes that Marx's concrete historical account of positive freedom resolves many of the key debates in this area and provides a fruitful framework to evaluate the freedoms and unfreedoms that are specific to capitalism. This book examines the thought of the paradigm thinkers in this debate, F.A. Hayek on negative freedom and T.H. Green on positive freedom and then ranges over the contributions to this debate made by both classical thinkers such as Kant, Hegel, and Marx, and those involved in contemporary debates on communitarianism, capitalism and self-determination, such as C. Taylor, D. Miller, F. Oppenheim and C.B. Macpherson.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2017
First published:	2005
Authors:	Yildiz Silier
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	189
ISBN-13:	978-0-8153-8908-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
LSN:	0-8153-8908-6
Barcode:	9780815389088

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