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Freedom and Its Conditions - Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance (Paperback): Richard Flathman Freedom and Its Conditions - Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance (Paperback)
Richard Flathman
R1,115 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R367 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Freedom and its Conditions challenges the received wisdom that discipline and freedom are opposite and mutually exclusive. 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. This book 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.

Willful Liberalism - Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice (Paperback, New): Richard Flathman Willful Liberalism - Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice (Paperback, New)
Richard Flathman
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book Richard E. Flathman argues vigorously for a new understanding of the proper place of voluntarism, individuality, and plurality in the political and moral theory of liberalism. Giving close and sympathetic attention to thinkers who are seldom considered in debates about liberalism, he draws upon thinking within and outside the liberal canon to articulate a refashioned liberalism that gives a more secure prominence to plurality and a robust individuality. Flathman focuses on political philosophers whose work deals with willfulness and the will in human practice. He is concerned with the thinking of such nominalist medieval theologians as John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham; of Hobbes; and of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James. He also explores the writings of such contemporary philosophical psychologists as Brian O'Shaughnessy and, in particular, Wittgenstein, and of such twentiethcentury political theorists as Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Hannah Arendt, and especially Michael Oakeshott. Appropriating ideas from widely disapproved thinkers and from theological sources commonly thought to be incompatible with liberalism, he formulates what is in many ways a strongly personal statement, one that is unorthodox and potentially disturbing. Sharply controversial, Willful Liberalism is certain to enliven and invigorate political and moral debate, and it may well help to revive liberalism as the dominant public philosophy of our culture, setting it on a new and better course.

Toward a Liberalism (Paperback): Richard Flathman Toward a Liberalism (Paperback)
Richard Flathman
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Toward a Liberalism, Richard Flathman shows why and how political theory can contribute to the quality of moral and political practice without violating, as empiricist- and idealist-based theories tend to do, liberal commitments to individuality and plurality. Exploring the tense but inevitable relationship between liberalism and authority, he advances a theory of democratic citizenship tempered by appreciation of the ways in which citizenship is implicated with and augments authority. Flathman examines the relationship of individual rights to freedom on one hand and to authority and power on the other, rejecting the quest for a single homogenous and authoritative liberal theory.

Willful Liberalism - Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Richard Flathman Willful Liberalism - Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Richard Flathman
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Toward a Liberalism (Hardcover): Richard Flathman Toward a Liberalism (Hardcover)
Richard Flathman
R1,795 Discovery Miles 17 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Freedom and Its Conditions - Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance (Hardcover, New): Richard Flathman Freedom and Its Conditions - Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance (Hardcover, New)
Richard Flathman
R3,263 R1,085 Discovery Miles 10 850 Save R2,178 (67%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Freedom and its Conditions challenges the received wisdom that discipline and freedom are opposite and mutually exclusive. 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. This book 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.

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