Tyranny and Revolution: Rousseau to Heidegger

by Waller R. Newell

Book Overview

The Philosophy of Freedom from Rousseau to Heidegger launched a great protest against modern liberal individualism, inspired by the virtuous political community of the ancient Greeks. Hegel argued that the progress of history was gradually bringing about greater freedom and restoring our lost sense of community. But his successors Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger rejected Hegel's version of the end of history with its legitimization of the bourgeois...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108424309
• ISBN13: 9781108424301
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"