Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, Volume I

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"This magisterial work traces the history of our most cherished value. Patterson links the birth of freedom in primitive societies with the institution of slavery, and traces the evolution of three forms of freedom in the West from antiquity through the Middle Ages." "This work traces the origin and development of the idea of freedom in Western culture. It deals with three distinct forms of freedom: personal freedom; civic freedom (the right to participate in public life); and sovereign freedom (the right to exercise power over others)." - Preface - Introduction: The Meaning of Freedom Part 1: The Stillbirth of Freedom in the Non-Western World 1. Primitive Beginnings 2. For the Creation of Eyes: Why Freedom Failed in the Non-Western World Part Two: The Greek Construction of Freedom 3. The Greek Origins of Freedom 4. The Emergence of Slave Society and Civic Freedom 5. The Persian Wars and the Creation of Organic (Sovereignal) Freedom 6. Slavery, Empire, and the Periclean Fusion 7. A Woman's Song: The Female Force and the Ideology of Freedom in Greek Tragedy and Society 8. Fission and Diffusion: Class and the Elements of Freedom in the Late Fifth Century and Beyond 9. The Outer Intellectual Response 10. The Turn to Inner Freedom 11. The Intellectual Response in the Hellenistic and Early Roman World Part Three: Rome and the Universalization of Freedom 12. Freedom and Class Conflict in Republican Rome 13. The Triumph of the Roman Freedman: Personal Liberty among the Urban Masses of the Early Empire 14. The Augustan Compromise: Sovereignal Freedom in Defense of Personal Liberty 15. Freedom, Stoicism, and the Roman Mind Part Four: Christianity Institutionalization of Freedom 16. Jesus and the Jesus Movement 17. Between Jesus and Paul 18. Paul and His World: A Community of Urban Freedmen 19. Paul and the Freedom of Mankind Part Five: The Medieval Reconstruction of Freedom 20. Freedom and Servitude in the Middle Ages 21. Medieval Renditions of the Chord of Freedom 22. Freedom in the Religious and Secular Thought of the Middle Ages - Coda - Notes - Index