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What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage-a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon-one of action from slavery and toward freedom-he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space-that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite.

Fugitive slaves --- Liberty. --- Maroons. --- africana studies, slavery, enslaved, history, historical, human condition, humanity, opposition, free, escape, caribbean, latin america, systems, power, politics, political, ideals, morals, values, liminal, transitional, flight, analysis, critique, critical, academic, scholarly, research, theory, theoretical, hannah arendt, web du bois, angela davis, frederick douglass, samuel taylor coleridge, literary, literature.

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This is the first book-length study to read the "Ancient Mariner" as "poetry," in Coleridge's own particular sense of the word. Coleridge's complicated relationship with the "Mariner" as an experimental poem lies in its origin as a joint project with Wordsworth. J. C. C. Mays traces the changes in the several versions published in Coleridge's lifetime and shows how Wordsworth's troubled reaction to the poem influenced its subsequent interpretation. This is also the first book to situate the "Mariner" in the context of the entirety of Coleridge's prose and verse, now available in the Bollingen Collected edition and Notebooks; that is, not only in relation to other poems like "The Ballad of the Dark Ladiè" and "Alice du Clós," but also to ideas in his literary criticism (especially Biographia Literaria), philosophy, and theology. Using a combination of close reading and broad historical considerations, reception theory, and book history, Mays surveys the poem's continuing life in illustrated editions and educational textbooks; its passage through the vicissitudes of New Criticism and critical theory; and, in a final chapter, its surprising affinities with some experimental poems of the present time. .

Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry. --- British literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- 19th century. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rime of the ancient mariner (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor) --- Coleridge, S. T. --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil, --- Kolʹridzh, Samuil Teĭlor, --- Kūlīridj, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- Kūlīridzh, Ṣāmwīl Tīlūr, --- Кольридж, Самуил, --- Кольридж, Самуил Тейлор, --- קולרידג׳, סמיואל טיילור --- كولردج، صمويل تيلور, --- קאָלרידש, ס. ט., --- Ancient mariners of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor)

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An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be.Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that set it apart from judgment, opinion, and the evidence of the senses. But with the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation, the question of just what kind of knowledge religious belief was-and how it related to more mundane ways of knowing-was forced into the open. As the warring churches fought over the answer, each claimed belief as their exclusive possession, insisting that their rivals were unbelievers. Shagan challenges the common notion that modern belief was a gift of the Reformation, showing how it was as much a reaction against Luther and Calvin as it was against the Council of Trent. He describes how dissidents on both sides came to regard religious belief as something that needed to be justified by individual judgment, evidence, and argument.Brilliantly illuminating, The Birth of Modern Belief demonstrates how belief came to occupy such an ambivalent place in the modern world, becoming the essential category by which we express our judgments about science, society, and the sacred, but at the expense of the unique status religion once enjoyed.

Christian West;religious belief;unbelievers;modern belief;Protestant Reformation;Luther;Calvin;Council of Trent;Enlightenment;belief;unbelief;religion;secular age;Reformation;modernity;Protestants;Catholics;Anabaptists;medieval Christians;God;deity;epistemology;faith;infinite creator;simulacra;Europe. --- Christian belief. --- Christian society. --- Church. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Descartes. --- Francesco Spiera. --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --- atheism. --- birth pangs. --- classical philosophy. --- confessional credulity. --- doctrines. --- dogma. --- eighteenth century. --- evil. --- existence. --- human beings. --- human creations. --- human judgment. --- infidels. --- knowledge. --- medieval credulity. --- modern credulity. --- modern historians. --- opinion. --- ratiocination. --- sixteenth century. --- social world. --- spiritual objects. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Religion --- History. --- Anabaptists. --- Calvin. --- Catholics. --- Christian West. --- Council of Trent. --- Enlightenment. --- God. --- Luther. --- Protestant Reformation. --- Protestants. --- Reformation. --- belief. --- deity. --- epistemology. --- faith. --- infinite creator. --- medieval Christians. --- modern belief. --- modernity. --- religion. --- religious belief. --- secular age. --- simulacra. --- unbelief. --- unbelievers.

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The Making of Modern Liberalism is a deep and wide-ranging exploration of the origins and nature of liberalism from the Enlightenment through its triumphs and setbacks in the twentieth century and beyond. The book is the fruit of the more than four decades during which Alan Ryan, one of the world's leading political thinkers, reflected on the past of the liberal tradition-and worried about its future.This is essential reading for anyone interested in political theory or the history of liberalism.

Liberalism --- History. --- Alexander Herzen. --- Alexis de Tocqueville. --- Autobiography. --- Bertrand Russell. --- East India Company. --- Enlightenment. --- Hannah Arendt. --- India. --- Isaiah Berlin. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- John Locke. --- John Rawls. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Joseph de Maistre. --- Karl Popper. --- L. T. Hobhouse. --- Leviathan. --- Marxism. --- Niccolo Machiavelli. --- On Liberty. --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge. --- T. H. Green. --- The Subjection of Women. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Vietnam War. --- Whig Revolution. --- World War II. --- absolutism. --- adjectival freedom. --- administration. --- administrative reform. --- adverbial freedom. --- anti-Americanism. --- anti-imperialism. --- atomism. --- authority. --- autonomy. --- brutalization. --- bureaucracy. --- capitalism. --- civil service. --- coercion. --- communitarianism. --- community. --- criminal justice system. --- culture. --- death penalty. --- democracy. --- disenchantment. --- empire. --- epistemological antiauthoritarianism. --- equality. --- ethics. --- fairness. --- free will. --- freedom of speech. --- freedom. --- government. --- human nature. --- human rights. --- incarceration. --- individualism. --- individuality. --- inner life. --- intervention. --- justice. --- law of nature. --- legitimacy. --- liberal anxieties. --- liberal community. --- liberal education. --- liberal imperialism. --- liberal interventionism. --- liberalism. --- libertarianism. --- liberty. --- marriage. --- mechanical materialism. --- meritocracy. --- moral authority. --- natural rights. --- natural theology. --- obligation. --- opinion. --- ordinary language philosophy. --- ordinary warfare. --- pacifism. --- participatory democracy. --- passivity. --- patriotism. --- philosophical engineering. --- philosophy. --- physics. --- physiology. --- pluralism. --- poetry. --- political liberalism. --- political obligation. --- political philosophy. --- political theory. --- politics. --- progress. --- property. --- psychology. --- punishment. --- rationality of science. --- red terror. --- religion. --- religious authority. --- religious belief. --- religious dissent. --- republicanism. --- rights. --- romantic conservatism. --- science. --- self-assertion. --- self-maintenance. --- self-preservation. --- self-realization. --- self-sufficiency. --- social identity. --- state. --- terror. --- terrorism. --- terrorist states. --- toleration. --- utilitarianism. --- utility. --- violence. --- welfare state. --- white terror.

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This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides. Glenn Morrow's death occurred while he was less than halfway through the translation, which was completed by John Dillon. A major work of the great Neoplatonist philosopher, the commentary is an intellectual tour de force that greatly influenced later medieval and Renaissance thought. As the notes and introductory summaries explain, it comprises a full account of Proclus' own metaphysical system, disguised, as is so much Neoplatonic philosophy, in the form of a commentary.

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