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Paradoxes of Freedom

Paradoxes of Freedom The Romantic Mystique of a Transcendence

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Paradoxes of Freedom is a study of the historical and philosophical conception of liberty. Centering his argumemt upon the Romantic exaltation of freedom that followed the psychic explosion of the French Revolution, Thomas McFarland identifies freedom as one of the three chief transcendencies, along with love and religion, by which humanity orientates itself. Departing from contemplation of the significance of the revolutionary motto `live free or die', he examines the apotheosis of freedom along with its vicissitudes, and indicates, by an examination ranging from Shakespeare and Luther to the writings of Nietzsche and Wagner, both the reasons for the supreme valuation of freedom and the nature of the hindrances, in theory and in fact, that enmesh the actual realization of freedom. the book concludes with a sombre assessment of the future of freedom as an orientating transcendence.

Book information

ISBN: 9780198121817
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.9384
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 139
Weight: 321g
Height: 224mm
Width: 145mm
Spine width: 17mm