Freedom : (Record no. 344775)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674988330
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 323.44
Item number DIJ
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dijn, Annelien de,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Freedom :
Remainder of title an unruly history /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Annelien de Dijn
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 426
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "The invention of modern freedom-the equating of liberty with restraints on state power-was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the Atlantic Revolutions. We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But who came up with this understanding of freedom, and for what purposes? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of thinking about freedom in the West, Annelien de Dijn argues that we owe our view of freedom not to the liberty lovers of the Age of Revolution but to the enemies of democracy. 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. They had what might best be described as a democratic conception of liberty. Understanding the long history of freedom underscores how recently it has come to be identified with limited government. It also reveals something crucial about the genealogy of current ways of thinking about freedom. 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. Rather than following in the path of the American founders, today's "big government" antagonists more closely resemble the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work"--
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Liberty.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Power (Social sciences)
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Government, Resistance to.
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2021-07-08   323.44 DIJ 162500 2021-07-08 2021-07-08 Books

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