Freedom (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Orlando Patterson
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The ancient and medieval world
- Setting: The West
- Principal Characters: Pericles, Plato, Augustus, Jesus of Nazareth, Paul of Tarsus
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Freedom, Philosophy or philosophers, Slavery or slaves, Religion, West, U.S., Economics, Equality, Greek or Roman times, Sociology
- Locales: Ancient world
Orlando Patterson’s Freedom, Volume I: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture is the first installment of a profoundly ambitious history of freedom in the West. Patterson aims high. He dismisses the erudite, yet heavily circumscribed, intellectual histories of freedom that have dominated the field. These usually begin in the Enlightenment and treat freedom only as a disembodied idea. Arrogantly, they assume the immaculate conception of freedom at the dawn of the modern age. Patterson answers this literature with a rich analysis of the origins of Western freedom, the history...
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