La libertad en sociedades esclavistas y no esclavistasvieja y nueva libertad
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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- Jordi Cortadella (coord.)
- Oriol Olesti Vila (coord.)
- César Sierra Martín (coord.)
- Alberto Prieto (hom.)
Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté ; Université de Franche-Comté
ISBN: 978-2-84867-629-6
Year of publication: 2018
Pages: 29-46
Congress: Groupe international de recherches sur l'esclavage dans l'antiquité (GIREA). Congreso Internacional (36. 2013. Barcelona)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the concept of freedom and its historical evolution. The study goes deeply into the historiographical trasnformation and interpretation of freedom from antiquity to the present day, starting from the "eleutheria/douleia" dichotomy. It concludes that in antiquity freedom was conceived as the opposite of slavery (freedom as opposed to exploitation), whereas modern freedom proposes free access to exploitation, leaving the working class jobless.