Moral Capital Brown, Christopher Leslie
12/2012
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Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the
late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges
prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of
abolitionism in ...economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism.
Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to
changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time,
particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American
Revolution.
The debate over the political rights of the North American
colonies pushed slavery to the fore, Brown argues, giving
antislavery organizing the moral legitimacy in Britain it had never
had before. The first emancipation schemes were dependent on
efforts to strengthen the role of the imperial state in an era of
weakening overseas authority. By looking at the initial public
contest over slavery, Brown connects disparate strands of the
British Atlantic world and brings into focus shifting developments
in British identity, attitudes toward Africa, definitions of
imperial mission, the rise of Anglican evangelicalism, and Quaker
activism.
Demonstrating how challenges to the slave system could serve as a
mark of virtue rather than evidence of eccentricity, Brown shows
that the abolitionist movement derived its power from a profound
yearning for moral worth in the aftermath of defeat and American
independence. Thus abolitionism proved to be a cause for the
abolitionists themselves as much as for enslaved Africans.
Icon of freedom and multiethnic democracy, memorial to Franco-American friendship—the lofty meanings we accord the Statue of Liberty today obscure its turbulent origins in 19th-century politics and ...art. Francesca Lidia Viano reveals that vibrant history in the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life.
What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ...ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges. This is also a history of the 'who' and the 'where' of the state, of the people who ran the state, the government offices they sat in and the college halls they dined in. Patrick Joyce argues that only by considering these things, people and places can we really understand the nature of the modern state. This is both a pioneering new approach to political history in which social and material factors are centre stage, and a highly original history of modern Britain.
On Liberty John Stuart Mill, John Stuart
2017
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At the time it was published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty was a radical and controversial work; it argued for the right of individuals to possess freedom from the state in moral and ...economic matters. Mill declares that "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign", contrasting this with the "tyranny of the majority." He states that an individual can do anything they like as long as it doesn't harm another - the well-known.
Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean is a collection of
essays that explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom
on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on
in-depth ...ethnographic research, historical and media analysis, the
study of popular culture, and autoethnographic accounts, the
various contributions challenge conventional assumptions about
political non/sovereignty. While the book recognizes the existence
of nationalist independence movements, it opens a critical space to
look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty,
and a good life. Focusing on all six different islands and through
a multitude of voices and stories, the volume engages with the
everyday projects, ordinary imaginaries, and dreams of equaliberty
alongside the work of independistas and traditional social
movements aiming for more or full self-determination. As such, it
offers a rich and powerful telling of the various ways of being in
and belonging to our contemporary postcolonial world.
Evil is the core challenge in thinking about freedom. With keen historical awareness, this study reconstructs the problematic interrelation between freedom and necessity in German Idealism and ...illuminates Schelling's systematic approach around the year 1809. This reinterpretation of Schelling's treatise on freedom considers systematic and theological questions as well as the effective tradition of Platonism and Neo-Platonism.
Europe's long sixteenth century-a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s-was an era of power struggles between avaricious ...and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever more violent fervor.Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europeargues that this turbulent age also laid the conceptual foundations of our modern ideas about liberty, justice, and democracy.
Hilary Gatti shows how these ideas emerged in response to the often-violent entrenchment of monarchical power and the fragmentation of religious authority, against the backdrop of the westward advance of Islam and the discovery of the New World. She looks at Machiavelli's defense of republican political liberty, and traces how liberty became intertwined with free will and religious pluralism in the writings of Luther, Erasmus, Jean Bodin, and Giordano Bruno. She examines how the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre and the clash of science and religion gave rise to concepts of liberty as freedom of thought and expression. Returning to Machiavelli and moving on to Jacques Auguste de Thou, Paolo Sarpi, and Milton, Gatti delves into debates about the roles of parliamentary government and a free press in guaranteeing liberties.
Drawing on a breadth of canonical and lesser-known writings,Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europereveals how an era stricken by war and injustice gave birth to a more enlightened world.
This work provides an interpretation of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) and elucidates the fundamental principles of Mill's concept of liberty. For Mill, the right to form one's own convictions ...and live according to them should only be infringed upon for one reason, namely "to prevent harm to others".
Die frappierende konzeptionelle Nähe von Fichte und Sartre ist Gegenstand der Beiträge dieses Bandes, obwohl Sartre kaum etwas von Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre gelesen haben dürfte. Bekanntlich sind ...die bedeutenden geistigen Wegmarken für Sartre Hegel, Husserl und Heidegger, schließlich auch Descartes und Kant, sowie Freud. Fichte denkt Freiheit im Hinblick auf die Sittlichkeit und die Selbstbestimmung des Menschen, während Sartre den Menschen unausweichlich in eine Freiheit und Verantwortlichkeit geworfen sieht, die der Mensch aushalten und austragen muss. Fichte gilt mit seiner Theorie der Anerkennung der Freiheit des Anderen im Naturrecht von 1796/97 vor Hegel als der erste Theoretiker einer Theorie der Intersubjektivität. Das Verhältnis zum Anderen reflektiert Sartre im Kapitel über den Blick (Le Regard) in Das Sein und das Nichts (L'Être et le Néant) hingegen als ein Sein für den Anderen, dessen Grundstruktur die einer wechselseitigen Objektivierung ist, gegen die es die eigene Subjektivität wiederherzustellen gilt. Im Hinblick auf heutige Debatten um die Fraglichkeit der Freiheit ist es von großem Interesse, diese beiden emphatischen Denker der Freiheit, Subjektivität und Andersheit in einen Dialog zu bringen.
This volume examines the remarkable conceptual affinity between Fichte and Sartre. Fichte thinks of freedom with respect to self-determination while Sartre sees humans as being thrust into freedom ...and responsibility that they must endure and bear. In terms of the current debate on the questionable nature of freedom, these two intense thinkers about freedom, subjectivity, and otherness are brought into dialogue.
