A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency

by Philip Pettit

Book Overview

In this short yet ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom, then develops his own--one that manages to straddle the personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195218329
• ISBN13: 9780195218329
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"