Freedom and the Construction of Europe

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139519298

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
Free Persons and Free States
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Freedom and the Construction of Europe - Title page
pp iii-iii
Free Persons and Free States
- By Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
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Copyright page
pp iv-iv
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Contents of Volume I
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Contents of Volume II
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Acknowledgements
pp ix-xi
- By Quentin Skinner, Martin van Gelderen
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Notes on contributors
pp xii-xvi
- By Catherine Ballériaux, Annabel Brett, Theodore Christov, John Coffey, Michael Cook, Rosanna Cox, Hannah Dawson, Serena Ferente, Fonna Forman, Felicity Green, Tomasz Gromelski, Polly Ha, Lena Halldenius, Iain Hampsher-Monk, Jaska Kainulainen, Thomas Kaufmann, Lovro Kunčević, Daniel Lee, Avi Lifschitz, Thomas Maissen, Reidar Maliks, Sarah Mortimer, Eric Nelson, Martina Reuter, Alexander Schmidt, Freya Sierhuis, Quentin Skinner, Peter Stacey, Timothy Stanton, Antti Tahvanainen, Martin van Gelderen, Márton Zászkaliczky
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Introduction
pp 1-6
- By Quentin Skinner
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Part I - Free persons and freedom of action
pp 7-102
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1 - Humanfreedom and Jesuit moral theology
pp 9-26
- By Annabel Brett
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2 - Freedomand self-possession: The case of Montaigne'sEssais
pp 27-45
- By Felicity Green
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3 - Autonomy and inner freedom: Lipsiusand the revival of Stoicism
pp 46-64
- By Freya Sierhuis
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4 - Freedom of the will as a basis of equality: Descartes,Princess Elisabeth and Poullain de la Barre
pp 65-83
- By Martina Reuter
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5 - Language as a means and an obstacle to freedom: the case ofMoses Mendelssohn
pp 84-102
- By Avi Lifschitz
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Part II - Free citizens and the state
pp 103-244
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6 - Liberty and citizenship in early modernEnglish political discourse
pp 105-127
- By Iain Hampsher-Monk
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7 - Free elections and freedom of speech inEnglish republican thought
pp 128-145
- By Antti Tahvanainen
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8 - John Milton's freecitizens and the politics of the family
pp 146-166
- By Rosanna Cox
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9 - Vattel's Rousseau:iusgentiumand the natural liberty of states
pp 167-187
- By Theodore Christov
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10 - Thestate of freedom: Kant and his conservative critics
pp 188-207
- By Reidar Maliks
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11 - Freedomand state action in German late Enlightenment thought
pp 208-226
- By Alexander Schmidt
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12 - Thepolitical conditions of free agency: the case of Mary Wollstonecraft
pp 227-244
- By Lena Halldenius
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Part III - Freedom and the limits of Europe
pp 245-310
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13 - The idea of freedom inmissionary writings about the New World
pp 247-265
- By Catherine Ballériaux
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14 - FromEuropean to cosmopolitan freedom
pp 266-282
- By Fonna Forman
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15 - Is politicalfreedom an Islamic value?
pp 283-310
- By Michael Cook
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Bibliography
pp 311-383
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Index of names
pp 384-393
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Index of subjects
pp 394-405
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