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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792071003321

Titolo

Freedom and the construction of Europe . Volume 2 Free persons and free states / / edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-108-81778-5

1-107-23816-1

1-107-30188-2

1-139-51929-8

1-107-30917-4

1-107-31472-0

1-107-30593-4

1-107-30697-3

1-299-25737-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 405 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL010000

Disciplina

323.094

Soggetti

Liberty

Civil rights - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Free persons and freedom of action -- pt. II. Free citizens and the state -- pt. III. Freedom and the limits of Europe.

Sommario/riassunto

Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship. Debates about freedom have been fundamental to the construction of modern Europe, but represent a part of our intellectual heritage that is rarely examined in depth. These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not



merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time.