Freedom Freedom in the Making of Western Culture

Name: Freedom Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
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ISBN: 9780465025350

ISBN-10: 0465025358

ISBN-13: 9780465025350

Edition: 1991

Authors: Orlando Patterson

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A great (both in reach and accomplishment) piece of work by the distinguished sociologist (Harvard U.), volume 1 of the projected two- volume history of freedom traces the evolution of freedom from Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BC through the permutations wrought by imperial Rome and the Middle Ages. Unsurprisingly, the Jamaican- born Patterson, long-concerned with the problems of oppression in both his early novels and later analytic studies, is particularly good on the relationship between the birth of freedom and the institution of slavery. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Basic Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.



Preface


Introduction the Meaning of Freedom


the Stillbirth of Freedom in the Non-Western World


Primitive Beginnings


for the Creation of Eyes: Why Freedom Failed in the Non-Western World


the Greek Construction of Freedom


the Greek Origins of Freedom


the Emergence of Slave Society and Civic Freedom


the Persian Wars and the Creation of Organic (sovereignal) Freedom





a Woman's Song: the Female Force and the Ideology of Freedom in Greek Tragedy and Society


Fission and Diffusion: Class and the Elements of Freedom in the Late Fifth Century and Beyond





the Turn to Inner Freedom


the Intellectual Response in the Hellenistic and Early Roman World


Rome and the Universalization of Freedom


Freedom and Class Conflict in Republican Rome


the Triumph of the Roman Freedman: Personal Liberty Among the Urban Masses of the Early Empire


the Augustan Compromise: Sovereignal Freedom in Defense of Personal Liberty


Freedom, Stoicism, and the Roman Mind


Christianity and the Institutionalization of Freedom


Jesus and the Jesus Movement


Between Jesus and Paul


Paul and His World: a Community of Urban Freedmen


Paul and the Freedom of Mankind


the Medieval Reconstruction of Freedom


Freedom and Servitude in the Middle Ages


Medieval Renditions of the Chord of Freedom


Freedom in the Religious and Secular Thought of the Middle Ages


Coda


Notes


Index