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At a time when the term “freedom” is loosely—and dangerously—bandied about, this work makes the important distinction between positive and negative freedom, and examines the various “zones” of positive freedom (art, religion, academia, politics, speech, etc.)
“Paul Gordon has provided a wonderfully broad and deep exploration of the ‘highest sense’ of freedom. Ranging from Plato to Thelma and Louise, via Nietzsche and Isaiah Berlin, Gordon creates an engaging web of cross-associations revealing freedom, in its most positive sense, as a potential condition of transcendence, a ‘field’ of creative energy” —Stephen Barker, PhD, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, USA
Introduction: Positive Freedom: The Absolute Within; Part. I The Idea of Freedom—Chapter One: Positive Freedom: Berlin; Chapter Two: The Reason for Freedom: Kant; Chapter Three: The Essence of Human Freedom: Fichte/Schelling; Chapter Four: The Joy of Freedom: Nietzsche/Sartre/Camus; Part II The Practice of Freedom—Chapter Five: Academic Freedom; Chapter Six: Political Freedom?; Chapter Seven: Free Speech; Chapter Eight: Artistic Freedom: Beethoven; Chapter Nine: Friendship as Freedom.