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In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress.

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"In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau�s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett�s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de force in defence of freedom and a call for a renewed ethic of liberality and generosity. This is a must read."
Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick



Table of Contents
  1. Large-Scale Political Bodies as Stress Communes
  2. Lucretia�s Revolt, Rousseau�s Retreat
  3. Stress and Freedom
  4. The Reaction of the Real
  5. On the Source of Committed Freedom

Stress and Freedom

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 23 October 2015
      ISBN-13 9780745699288
      978-0745699288
      ISBN-10 0745699286
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      Social theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress.

      Trade Review

      "In this essay on the meaning of freedom today Peter Sloterdijk offers a stunning account of our post-modern predicaments. He writes as ever with polemical verve and great wit, tracing an aberrant freedom from the dissidence of Rousseau�s figure of the solitary walker to the existential principles of Beckett�s neglected first play Eleutheria. The result is an impassioned tour de force in defence of freedom and a call for a renewed ethic of liberality and generosity. This is a must read."
      Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick



      Table of Contents
      1. Large-Scale Political Bodies as Stress Communes
      2. Lucretia�s Revolt, Rousseau�s Retreat
      3. Stress and Freedom
      4. The Reaction of the Real
      5. On the Source of Committed Freedom

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