Freedom and the Construction of Europe

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Volume 2: Free Persons and Free States
Edited by Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London, Martin van Gelderen, European University Institute, Florence

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: March 2013
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781139519298
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519298

Subjects:: History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History

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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.

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe - Half title page
pp i-ii

Freedom and the Construction of Europe - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents of Volume I
pp v-vi

Contents of Volume II
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-xi

Notes on contributors
pp xii-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-6

Part I - Free persons and freedom of action
pp 7-102

1 - Humanfreedom and Jesuit moral theology
pp 9-26

2 - Freedomand self-possession: The case of Montaigne'sEssais
pp 27-45

3 - Autonomy and inner freedom: Lipsiusand the revival of Stoicism
pp 46-64

4 - Freedom of the will as a basis of equality: Descartes,Princess Elisabeth and Poullain de la Barre
pp 65-83

5 - Language as a means and an obstacle to freedom: the case ofMoses Mendelssohn
pp 84-102

Part II - Free citizens and the state
pp 103-244

6 - Liberty and citizenship in early modernEnglish political discourse
pp 105-127

7 - Free elections and freedom of speech inEnglish republican thought
pp 128-145

8 - John Milton's freecitizens and the politics of the family
pp 146-166

9 - Vattel's Rousseau:iusgentiumand the natural liberty of states
pp 167-187

10 - Thestate of freedom: Kant and his conservative critics
pp 188-207

11 - Freedomand state action in German late Enlightenment thought
pp 208-226

12 - Thepolitical conditions of free agency: the case of Mary Wollstonecraft
pp 227-244

Part III - Freedom and the limits of Europe
pp 245-310

13 - The idea of freedom inmissionary writings about the New World
pp 247-265

14 - FromEuropean to cosmopolitan freedom
pp 266-282

15 - Is politicalfreedom an Islamic value?
pp 283-310

Bibliography
pp 311-383

Index of names
pp 384-393

Index of subjects
pp 394-405

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