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The self at liberty

by Duncan Ivison

PhilosophyFantasy

1997

Duncan Ivison sets out to map a subtle but significant addition to the political discourse on liberty. Using the political theories of Niccolo Machiavelli, John Locke, John Rawls, and Michel Foucault, Ivison contests one of the most famous distinctions in contemporary political philosophy: the one that Isaiah Berlin draws between negative and positive liberty.

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