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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.
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.
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.
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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