Freedom

Volume I: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture

By: Orlando Patterson

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Paperback | 14 October 1992 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction the Meaning of Freedom	p. 1
the Stillbirth of Freedom in the Non-Western World	p. 7
Primitive Beginnings	p. 9
for the Creation of Eyes: Why Freedom Failed in the Non-Western World	p. 20
the Greek Construction of Freedom	p. 45
the Greek Origins of Freedom	p. 47
the Emergence of Slave Society and Civic Freedom	p. 64
the Persian Wars and the Creation of Organic (sovereignal) Freedom	p. 82
	p. 95
a Woman's Song: the Female Force and the Ideology of Freedom in Greek Tragedy and Society	p. 106
Fission and Diffusion: Class and the Elements of Freedom in the Late Fifth Century and Beyond	p. 133
	p. 146
the Turn to Inner Freedom	p. 165
the Intellectual Response in the Hellenistic and Early Roman World	p. 181
Rome and the Universalization of Freedom	p. 201
Freedom and Class Conflict in Republican Rome	p. 203
the Triumph of the Roman Freedman: Personal Liberty Among the Urban Masses of the Early Empire	p. 227
the Augustan Compromise: Sovereignal Freedom in Defense of Personal Liberty	p. 258
Freedom, Stoicism, and the Roman Mind	p. 264
Christianity and the Institutionalization of Freedom	p. 291
Jesus and the Jesus Movement	p. 293
Between Jesus and Paul	p. 304
Paul and His World: a Community of Urban Freedmen	p. 316
Paul and the Freedom of Mankind	p. 325
the Medieval Reconstruction of Freedom	p. 345
Freedom and Servitude in the Middle Ages	p. 347
Medieval Renditions of the Chord of Freedom	p. 363
Freedom in the Religious and Secular Thought of the Middle Ages	p. 376
Coda	p. 402
Notes	p. 407
Index	p. 471
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