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Richard E. Flathman: Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism and Opalescent Individuality book cover

1st Edition

Richard E. Flathman Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism and Opalescent Individuality

Edited By P.E. Digeser Copyright 2017
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge
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Richard E. Flathman is a ground-breaking theorist of key political concepts, a fierce defender of individuality, a close and original reader of Hobbes and an advocate of a willful conception of liberalism. In this volume P E Digeser draws together some of his key works. The collection is framed by an introduction and an interview with Flathman, where he reflects on his contributions. By... Read more

Introduction: Paige E. Digeser

PART I

Equality, Authority, Rights and Philosophy as Therapy

1 Equality and Generalization: A Formal Analysis (1967)

2 Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language and Political and Social Philosophy (1973)

3 Authority and the "Surrender" of Political Judgment (1980)

4 Liberalism and Authority (1989)

5 The Theory of Rights and the Practice of Abortion (1989)

PART II

Situating and Disciplining Freedom

6 Kinds of Freedom (1987)

7 Is the Positive Theory of Freedom a Theory of Freedom? (1987)

8 Situating Freedom (1987)

9 Control, Resistance, and Freedom (2003)

Part III

Opacity, Liberalism, and Individuality

10 Individuality, Plurality, and Liberalism (1992)

11 Of Liberty, Authority and Power (1993)

12 Strains in and Around Liberal Theory (1998)

13 Here and Now, There and Then, Always and Everywhere: Reflections Concerning Political Theory and the Study/Writing of Political Thought (2006)

An interview with Richard E. Flathman:
Questions from P. E. Digeser

Index

Biography

P.E. Digeser is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Our Politics, Our Selves? (1996), Political Forgiveness (2001), and Friendship Reconsidered: What it Means and How it Matters to Politics (2016).

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