Collection of essays, representing analyses of the concept of liberty offered by political theorists over the last century. They contain views about what liberty consists of and how it may be promoted. The introduction places them in an historical context, stretching back to Ancient Greece.
Liberty Summary
Liberty by David Miller
This book is intended for first degree and graduate students in politics, political theory, and political philosophy.
Table of Contents
Liberal legislation and freedom of contract, T.H.Green; two concepts of liberty, Isaiah Berlin; freedom and politics, Hannah Arendt; freedom and co-ercion, F.A.Hayek; negative and positive freedom, Gerald C.MacCallum Jr; individual liberty, Hillel Steiner; what's wrong with negative liberty?, Charles Taylor; capitalism, freedom and the proletariat, G.A.Cohen; the paradoxes of political liberty, Quentin Skinner.
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