Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism
Corneille, Pascal, Racine (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Cultur)
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Word Count
49,000 words, Guess
Page Count
196 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8223595M
- ISBN-139780838755488
- ISBN-100838755488
- OCLC Control Number51535172
- Library of Congress Control Number2002156737
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- Goodreads2269799
Classifications
- LCCPQ245 .E55 2003
Description
"Ziad Elmarsafy 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 from the contemporary orthodoxy that privileges individual freedom."--Jacket.
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- Freedom, Slavery, and Absolutism: Corneille, Pascal, Racine (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Cultur)
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