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This is the most systematic, the most radical, and the most lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy. Finding its guiding motives in Kant's second "Critique" and working its way up to and beyond Heidegger and Adorno, this book marks the most... read more

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If nothing is more common today than demanding or defending freedom in the spheres of morality, law, or politics-to such an extent that "equality," "fraternity," and "community" have demonstrably and firmly been pushed, if at times regrettably, into the background of preoccupations and imperatives, or have finally even been considered as antonyms of freedom-then nothing is less articulated or problematized, in turn, than the nature and stakes of what we call "freedom."
 

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