Freedom Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture

Name: Freedom Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture
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ISBN: 9780465025329

ISBN-10: 0465025323

ISBN-13: 9780465025329

Edition: 1991

Authors: Orlando Patterson

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Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 10/14/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.95" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 0.836
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