Back to results
Cover image for book Freedom and Culture in Western Society

Freedom and Culture in Western Society

By:Hans Blokland
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9781138974630
eText ISBN:9781317798675
Edition:1
Copyright:1997
Format:Reflowable

eBook Features

Instant Access

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Offline

Access your eTextbook anytime and anywhere

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Critically examining conceptions of freedom of some of the leading contemporary philosophers from Isaiah Berlin to Charles Taylor, Hans Blokland explores the value and significance that freedom has acquired on our political consciousness. He looks specifically at:* positive and negative freedom* freedom of the individual* freedom and society* emancipation and paternalism* freedom and cultural politics.