Freedom, Slavery and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine - Hardcover

Elmarsafy, Ziad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838755488 ISBN 13: 9780838755488

Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S., 2003

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Reseña del editor:

This book explores the concept of freedom by reading the works of Corneille, Pascal, and Racine as political theories in the guise of literature. Within this framework, a certain model quickly becomes apparent, namely that of absolute sovereignty as the guarantor of freedom. The three writers under consideration share the view that freedom is ensured only by absolute authority rather than the absence of such authority. From Corneille, who modulates freedom through an erotic link to the monarch as a means through which the glorious individual is brought into the state's fold, to Pascal, who traces the liberation of the will via absolute submission to God, to Racine, for whom absolute submission to the most Christian king is the only route to political and personal salvation, Elmarsafy studies a politics of taking charge that differs markedly form the contemporary orthodoy that privileges individual freedom.

Biografía del autor:

Ziad Elmarsafy is an Associate Professor of French at New York University.

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• Verlag: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0838755488
• ISBN 13: 9780838755488
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200