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Article: Myths of Freedom: Equality, Modern Thought, and Philosophical Radicalism.(Review) (book review)

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Gardner, Stephen L. Myths of Freedom: Equality, Modern Thought, and Philosophical Radicalism Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 197 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-313-30724-5 Publication Date: August 1998

Stephen Gardner is an assistant professor of philosophy at Assumption College, in Massachusetts. In this book aimed at scholars and specialists in modern philosophy, he offers a critique of the birth of the modern tradition of philosophical radicalism. He understands that tradition as consisting of various strands of modern thought, inspired largely by Marxian, Heideggerian, and Nietzschean perspectives but all sharing certain key features that include a rejection of ...

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