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

Elmarsafy, Ziad

Bucknell Univ Pr（2003/07発売）

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 196 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780838755488
DDC分類 840.9358

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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.