An Unruly History
by Annelien de Dijn
- Author(s)
- Annelien de Dijn
- Publication
- Cambridge (Massachussets) ; London : Harvard University, 2020
- Scope
- 432 Pages, illustrated, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780674988330
The conception of freedom most prevalent today - that it depends on the limitation of state power - is a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking about liberty. For centuries people in the West identified freedom not with being left alone by the state but with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed: the democratic system. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who created our modern democracies - it was invented by their critics and opponents: today’s “big government” antagonists more closely resemble the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
- Keywords
- philosophy , history , democracy
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 1: Filosofie ; Sociologie ; Maatschappij ; Politiek
- Remarks
- Incl. Notes, Index
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