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Freedom and Its Conditions: Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance - Softcover

Flathman, Richard

 
9780415945622: Freedom and Its Conditions: Discipline, Autonomy, and Resistance
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415945623 ISBN 13: 9780415945622
Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Can any of us ever really be free? Do we follow the rules our society gives us because we want to, or because we are forced to? Discipline, Freedom, Resistance challenges the received wisdom that discipline and freedom are opposite and mutually exclusive. Though it is typically argued that a well-ordered liberal society must discipline its more unruly citizens to maintain freedom for all, Flathman shows how resistance to rules can mean more than criminals breaking laws. Resistance can also mean political protest and political dialogues about what the rules can be. Discipline, Freedom,Resistance draws on Foucault's theories of the self to describe the inner discipline it takes to resist authority-declaring that individuals must sometimes resist forces that wish to destroy freedom, to ensure freedom.

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Richard Flathman

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415945623
ISBN 13 
9780415945622
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
206