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Freedom in the making of western culture / Orlando Patterson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Patterson, Orlando, Freedom ; v. 1.Publication details: [New York, N.Y.] : Basic Books, c1991.Description: xviii, 487 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0465025358 :
  • 9780465025350
  • 0465025323 (pbk.)
  • 9780465025329 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JC585 .P32 1991 vol. 1
Contents:
Primitive beginnings -- For the creation of eyes: why freedom failed in the non-western world -- The Greek origins of freedom -- The emergence of slave society and civic freedom -- The Persian wars and the creation of organic (sovereignal) freedom -- Slavery, empire, and the Periclean fusion -- A woman's song: the female force and the ideology of freedom in Greek tragedy and society -- Fission and diffusion: class and the elements of freedom in the late fifth century and beyond -- The outer intellectual response -- The turn to inner freedom -- The intellectual response in the Hellenistic and early Roman world -- Freedom and class conflict in republican Rome -- The triumph of the Roman freedman: personal liberty among the urban masses of the early empire -- The Augustan compromise: sovereignal freedom in defense of personal liberty -- Freedom, stoicism, and the Roman mind -- Jesus and the Jesus movement -- Between Jesus and Paul -- Paul and his world: a community of urban freedmen -- Paul and the freedom of mankind -- Freedom and servitude in the Middle Ages -- Medieval renditions of the chord of freedom -- Freedom in the religious and secular thought of the Middle Ages.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-470) and index.

Primitive beginnings -- For the creation of eyes: why freedom failed in the non-western world -- The Greek origins of freedom -- The emergence of slave society and civic freedom -- The Persian wars and the creation of organic (sovereignal) freedom -- Slavery, empire, and the Periclean fusion -- A woman's song: the female force and the ideology of freedom in Greek tragedy and society -- Fission and diffusion: class and the elements of freedom in the late fifth century and beyond -- The outer intellectual response -- The turn to inner freedom -- The intellectual response in the Hellenistic and early Roman world -- Freedom and class conflict in republican Rome -- The triumph of the Roman freedman: personal liberty among the urban masses of the early empire -- The Augustan compromise: sovereignal freedom in defense of personal liberty -- Freedom, stoicism, and the Roman mind -- Jesus and the Jesus movement -- Between Jesus and Paul -- Paul and his world: a community of urban freedmen -- Paul and the freedom of mankind -- Freedom and servitude in the Middle Ages -- Medieval renditions of the chord of freedom -- Freedom in the religious and secular thought of the Middle Ages.