Freedom's Moment An Essay on the French Idea of Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault

Name: Freedom's Moment An Essay on the French Idea of Liberty from Rousseau to Foucault
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ISBN: 9780226112862

ISBN-10: 0226112861

ISBN-13: 9780226112862

Edition: 1997

Authors: Paul M. Cohen

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What kind of freedom, and what kind of individual, has the French Revolutionary tradition sought to propagate? Paul Cohen finds a distinctly French articulation of freedom in the texts and lives of eight renowned cultural critics who lived between the eighteenth century and the present day. Arranged not according to the lives and times of its protagonists but to the narrative themes and structures they held in common, Cohen’s study discerns a single master narrative of liberty in modern France. He captures these radicals, whose tradition bids them to resist the authority of power structures and public opinion. They denounce bourgeois and utilitarian values, the power of Church and State,…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 237
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.89" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Translations



Introduction



The Myth of the Consecrated Heretic



Hell and Other People



The Critique of Society



The Moment of Freedom



Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index