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Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism
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Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism Hardcover - 2000

by Chris Matthew Sciabarra


From the publisher

Building upon his previous books about Marx, Hayek, and Rand, Total Freedom completes what Lingua Franca has called Sciabarra's "epic scholarly quest" to reclaim dialectics, usually associated with the Marxian left, as a methodology that can revivify libertarian thought. Part One surveys the history of dialectics from the ancient Greeks through the Austrian school of economics. Part Two investigates in detail the work of Murray Rothbard as a leading modern libertarian, in whose thought Sciabarra finds both dialectical and nondialectical elements. Ultimately, Sciabarra aims for a dialectical-libertarian synthesis, highlighting the need (not sufficiently recognized in liberalism) to think of the "totality" of interconnections in a dynamic system as the way to ensure human freedom while avoiding "totalitarianism" (such as resulted from Marxism).

Details

  • Title Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism
  • Author Chris Matthew Sciabarra
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penn State University Press
  • Date December 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780271020488 / 0271020482
  • Weight 1.86 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.37 x 6.37 x 1.29 in (23.80 x 16.18 x 3.28 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Dialectic, Libertarianism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99059077
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.512

About the author

Chris Matthew Sciabarra has been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Politics at New York University since 1989. His previous publications include Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State, 1995), Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (1995), and Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (edited with Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Penn State, 1999).