Bibliograph

Freedom and the construction of Europe, edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin Van Gelderen

Type

Label

Freedom and the construction of Europe, edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin Van Gelderen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Freedom and the construction of Europe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

809411487

Responsibility statement

edited by Quentin Skinner and Martin Van Gelderen

Summary

"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 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a continent of proliferating religious denominations. 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"--provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Vol. 1., Religious and constitutional liberties. -- Vol. 2., Free persons and free states

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