Narrative power and liberal truth : Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill
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Narrative power and liberal truth : Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill
Rowman & Littlefield, c2002
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9780742507906
Description
Liberal political thought-from its origins in the seventeenth-century through today's rights discourse-is grounded in the ideal of the autonomous individual. As the theory holds, these individuals are "born in freedom" from religious, political, social or economic obligations and then construct these systems through individual and collective choices. Over the past thirty years, however, this understanding of freedom has been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Eldon J. Eisenach has been at the forefront of that challenge, stressing the centrality of religious elements and assumptions in liberal writings that many scholars suppressed or ignored. In Narrative Power and Liberal Truth Eisenach brings together eleven of his previously published essays to demonstrate that many "postmodernist" ideas of persons and freedom are already present within the tradition of liberal political philosophy and that liberalism itself is more capacious of human experience and meanings than modern critiques allow.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Hobbes Chapter 2 On Reducing Hobbes Chapter 3 Hobbes on Church, State, and Religion Chapter 4 Liberal Virtues Part 5 Locke and Bentham Chapter 6 Body-Truth and Sprit-Truth in Locke's Way of Knowing Chapter 7 Religion and Locke's Two Treatises of Government Chapter 8 The Dimension of History in Bentham's Theory of Law Chapter 9 Crime, Death, and Loyalty in English Liberalism Part 10 Mill Chapter 11 Mill's Autobiography as Political Theory Chapter 12 Self-Reform as Poltical Reform in teh Writings of John Stuart Mill Chapter 13 Mill and Liberal Christianity Chapter 14 John Stuart Mill and the History of Political Thought
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: pbk ISBN 9780742507913
Description
Liberal political thought-from its origins in the seventeenth-century through today's rights discourse-is grounded in the ideal of the autonomous individual. As the theory holds, these individuals are 'born in freedom' from religious, political, social or economic obligations and then construct these systems through individual and collective choices. Over the past thirty years, however, this understanding of freedom has been challenged from a variety of perspectives. Eldon J. Eisenach has been at the forefront of that challenge, stressing the centrality of religious elements and assumptions in liberal writings that many scholars suppressed or ignored. In Narrative Power and Liberal Truth Eisenach brings together eleven of his previously published essays to demonstrate that many 'postmodernist' ideas of persons and freedom are already present within the tradition of liberal political philosophy and that liberalism itself is more capacious of human experience and meanings than modern critiques allow.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Hobbes Chapter 2 On Reducing Hobbes Chapter 3 Hobbes on Church, State, and Religion Chapter 4 Liberal Virtues Part 5 Locke and Bentham Chapter 6 Body-Truth and Sprit-Truth in Locke's Way of Knowing Chapter 7 Religion and Locke's Two Treatises of Government Chapter 8 The Dimension of History in Bentham's Theory of Law Chapter 9 Crime, Death, and Loyalty in English Liberalism Part 10 Mill Chapter 11 Mill's Autobiography as Political Theory Chapter 12 Self-Reform as Poltical Reform in teh Writings of John Stuart Mill Chapter 13 Mill and Liberal Christianity Chapter 14 John Stuart Mill and the History of Political Thought
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