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082 0 4 _a320.011
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aVilla, Dana
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPublic Freedom /
_cDana Villa.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2008]
264 4 _c©2008
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1 Introduction: Public Freedom Today --
_t2 Tocqueville and Civil Society --
_t3 Hegel, Tocqueville, and "Individualism" --
_t4 Tocqueville and Arendt: Public Freedom, Plurality, and the Preconditions of Liberty --
_t5 Maturity, Paternalism, and Democratic Education in J. S. Mill --
_t6 The Frankfurt School and the Public Sphere --
_t7 Genealogies of Total Domination: Arendt, Adorno, and Auschwitz --
_t8 Foucault and the Dystopian Public --
_t9 Arendt and Heidegger, Again --
_t10 The "Autonomy of the Political" --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In Public Freedom, renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. Through intense close readings of theorists such as Hegel, Tocqueville, Mill, Adorno, Arendt, and Foucault, Villa diagnoses the key causes of our democratic discontent and offers solutions to preserve at least some of our democratic hopes. He demonstrates how Americans' preoccupation with a market-based conception of freedom--that is, the personal freedom to choose among different material, moral, and vocational goods--has led to the gradual erosion of meaningful public participation in politics as well as diminished interest in the health of the public realm itself. Villa critically examines, among other topics, the promise and limits of civil society and associational life as sources of democratic renewal; the effects of mass media on the public arena; and the problematic but still necessary ideas of civic competence and democratic maturity. Public Freedom is a passionate and insightful defense of political liberties at a moment in America's history when such freedoms are very much at risk.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 0 _aLiberty.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Political.
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