David Schmidtz (USA University of Arizona), Jason Brennan (USA Brown University)

Broschiertes Buch

Brief History Liberty

Beschreibung

Through a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, A Brief History of Liberty provides a comprehensive, philosophically-informed portrait of the elusive nature of one of our most cherished ideals.

Autor

David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, and Director of the Freedom Center at the University of Arizona. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Political Theory. Jason Brennan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Research, at Brown University, and a faculty associate of the Political Theory Project at Brown University. His articles have appeared in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, The Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Ratio.

Produktdetails

• Brief Histories of Philosophy
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781405170796
• ISBN-10: 1405170794
• Artikelnr.: 28099254

Rezensionen

"Although the book has a strongly classical liberal flavour, italso contains some interesting discussion of positive liberty. Forone thing, Schmidtz and Brennan argue that the progress of negativeliberty in western societies has massively expanded almosteveryone's range of real options. For another, they suggest thatthis greater (negative and positive) external freedom can open theway to a greater internal or psychological" freedom". (ThePhilosophers' Magazine, 13 August 2010)

"Its brevity and simplicity is perhaps understandable, given thehistorical focus and ambitious scope of the book, and the authors'evident desire to get the light, entertaining and up-beat narrativemoving." (The Philosopher's Magazine, August 2010)"The bookweaves together a number of figures in social, political,philosophical, economic, and even psychological theory, in a waynot commonly found, and it does so rather effectively." (NotreDame Philosophical Reviews, September 05, 2010)

"Schmidtz and Brennan offer their readers insights into thefreedom debate by following it through the broad sweep of Westernhistory...[A Brief History of Liberty]... comprehensive notes andbibliographies and...deserve[s] to be taken seriously by those withan interest in liberty." (The Philosopher, summer 2010)