Indifferenz und Wiederholung : Freiheit in der Moderne
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 36470426
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Konstanz University Press
- ISBN
- 9783835391055
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This monograph examines a diagnosis that one can find repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy and that was first formulated by René Descartes. It begins from assuming that there are degrees of freedom. Its lowest degree is reached when we encounter a freedom that is practically (almost) indistinguishable from unfreedom, a freedom that is not realized as freedom. Such (un)freedom is what Descartes describes in terms of indifference. The monograph reconstructs the problems with freedom becoming indifferent and demonstrates how this diagnosis informs repeated problematization of inconsistent concepts of freedom in Kant, Hegel, Marx and others.
