Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary? This book is an ambitious account of the historical origin and spread of those principles, and their role in creating…
The meaning of freedom
by Kelley, Robin D. G., Davis, Angela Y., (Angela Yvonne)
fromOpen Media book
In this collection of twelve previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States. What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life…
The meaning of freedom
by Kelley, Robin D. G., Davis, Angela Y., (Angela Yvonne)
fromOpen Media book
In this collection of twelve previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States. What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life…
"Freedom of speech, religion, choice, will - - humans have fought, and continue to fight, for all of these. But what is human freedom, and what are the main threats to it today? These questions and more are discussed in this comprehensive investigation of the nature of freedom…
"The shift from government to governance has become a starting point for many studies of contemporary policy-making and democracy. Practices of Freedom takes a different approach, calling into question this dominant narrative and taking the variety, hybridity and dispersion of s…
Kant and the Limits of Autonomy is both a rigorous, philosophically and historically informed study of Kantian autonomy and an extended meditation on the foundation and limits of modern liberalism."--Pub. desc.
Liberty and authority in Victorian Britain
Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book, by historians of state and society, asks to what extent that was true …
"In Deliberative Freedom, Christian F. Rostboll accepts the common belief that democracy and freedom are intimately related, but he sees this relationship in a new and challenging way. Rostboll argues that deliberative democracy is normatively committed to multiple dimensions of…
"In Deliberative Freedom, Christian F. Rostboll accepts the common belief that democracy and freedom are intimately related, but he sees this relationship in a new and challenging way. Rostboll argues that deliberative democracy is normatively committed to multiple dimensions of…