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Realizing Social Freedom: Exit, Democracy, and an Egalitarian Ethos

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This dissertation addresses two distinct but related questions. First, how should we conceive of social freedom? Second, given this conception, what ideals would best satisfy the demands we are under as citizens and moral agents? In answer to the first question, I defend a novel account of social freedom, where...

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Democracy, Ethics, Equality, Republican, Liberal, and Freedom

Subject:

Philosophy

Creator:

Kissel, Joshua Paul

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/02/2022

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15839 and etdadmin_upload_858535
The Use of Humans: Aristotle, Marx, and the Specters of Indeterminate Utility

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This dissertation reorients political theory to the concepts of use and utility for a more critical and emancipatory perspective on contemporary communal life. The reorientation entails a recovery of Aristotle’s and Marx’s overlapping approaches to use, whose contemporary reception indexes the surprising alignment of critical political theory with economics. That...

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Democracy, Critical Theory, Aristotle, Marx, Indeterminacy, and Utility

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Philosophy, Classical studies, and Political science

Creator:

Bradshaw, Tristan

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/02/2022

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15868 and etdadmin_upload_863374
Sheldon Wolin and Democracy: Seeing Through Loss

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This dissertation examines the political thought of Sheldon Wolin. Perceiving a crisis of technocratic liberalism in the postwar period, Wolin develops a critique of modernity that emphasizes the loss both of political vision and of local cultures and traditions. His subsequent radical democratic theory identifies a contrapuntal American tradition of...

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Democracy, Totalitarianism, Liberalism, Loss, Radical, and Wolin

Subject:

Political Science

Creator:

Lucy Cane

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

03/07/2019

Date Modified:

03/07/2019

Date Created:

2018-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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