To Be Unfree: Republicanism And Unfreedom In History, Literature, And Philosophy 9

»To Be Unfree« is a collection of essays investigating how political unfreedom has been and can be articulated within the republican tradition of political thought. The book combines a theoretical discussion of how freedom and its opposites have been conceptualized in the republican tradition with a broader perspective on this tradition's impact on the representation of unfreedom in Western literature and cultural history. It thus complicates our understanding of what it means to be unfree and unveils a series of distinctions which also shape our modern notions of freedom. Cover......Page 1 Content......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 PART 1: CONCEPTUAL VARIETIES OF UNFREEDOM......Page 18 Statelessness, Domination, and Unfreedom. Arendt and Pettit in Dialogue......Page 20 Freedom as Non-Arbitrariness or as Democratic Self-Rule? A Critique of Contemporary Republicanism......Page 38 The Unlikely Claimant. Sovereignty and Republicanism in Hobbes......Page 56 Materially Unfree. Corruption as a societal diagnosis and the political forms of unfreedom......Page 74 Unfreedom and the Republican Tradition in the French Revolution......Page 94 PART 2: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF UNFREEDOM......Page 118 Occupy Rome. Citizenship and Freedom in Early Modern Political Culture, Recent Political Theory, and Coriolanus......Page 120 Unfreedom, Servitude, and the Social Bond......Page 140 Naturally free, politically unfree. Voltaire’s Quakers and the modern discourse of human rights......Page 158 Dependency, Corruption, and Aesthetics in Denis Diderot’s Le neveu de Rameau......Page 178 Baudelaire and the Government of the Imagination Christopher Prendergast......Page 200 Unfreedom and the Crises of Witnessing. A Republican Perspective on the African American Slave Narratives......Page 214 About the Authors......Page 230