Freedom's Progress?: A History of Political Thought

by Gerard Casey

In Freedom's Progress? , Gerard Casey argues that the progress of freedom has largely consisted in an intermittent and imperfect transition from tribalism to individualism, from the primacy of the collective to the fragile centrality of the individual person and of freedom. Such a transition is, he argues, neither automatic nor complete, nor are relapses to tribalism impossible. The reason for the fragility of freedom is simple: the importance of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845409426
• ISBN13: 9781845409425
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 964 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 15 years and up