Narrative Power and Liberal Truth: Hobbes, Locke, Bentham, and Mill

by Eldon J. Eisenach

Book Overview

Liberal political thought-from its origins in the seventeenth-century through today's rights discourse-is grounded in the ideal of the autonomous individual. As the theory holds, these individuals are "born in freedom" from religious, political, social or economic obligations and then construct these systems through individual and collective choices. Over the past thirty years, however, this understanding of freedom has been challenged from a variety...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742507904
• ISBN13: 9780742507906
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages