The Aporia of Freedom

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Introduction
Chapter 1 Visions of Freedom
	1.1 Freedom as an Illusion: David Hume
	1.2 Freedom as Belonging: Baruch Spinoza
	1.3 Freedom as an Assumption: Immanuel Kant
Chapter 2 The Negated Aporia of Freedom
	2.1 Freedom as Social Belonging: Émile Durkheim
	2.2 Freedom as a Theoretical Problem: Talcott Parsons
	2.3 Freedom as a Practical Problem: Niklas Luhmann
Chapter 3 The Acknowledged Aporia of Freedom
	3.1 The Renaissance of Freedom: Rational Choice Theory
	3.2 Implications of the Subjective Perspective: Raymond Boudon
	3.3 The Choice of Values: Max Weber
Chapter 4 At the Source of Freedom
	4.1 Basic Anxiety: Social Phenomenology
	4.2 Freedom between People: Erving Goffman
	4.3 Reconstructions of Subjectivity: Paul Ricoeur, Michel Foucault
Chapter 5 Freedom by Belief
	5.1 Belief in Scientific Community: Charles Sanders Peirce
	5.2 Belief in God: William James
	5.3 Belief in the Act: George Herbert Mead
Chapter 6 Freedom as a Challenge
	6.1 The Human Reality: Karl Marx
	6.2 Theories of Practice: Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens
	6.3 Freedom and Democracy: Antonio Gramsci, Cornelius Castoriadis
Conclusion
Bibliography
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