Lena Halldenius
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lena Halldenius |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lena |
| FAMILY NAME | Halldenius |
| SIGNATURE | HALLDENIUS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9690-3022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why Limitarianism Fails on its Own Premises – an Egalitarian Critique
This article is a critical analysis of Ingrid Robeyns’ “economic limitarianism” (2017, 2019, 2022), the suggestion that there is a moral case against allowing people to be richer than they need to be in order to achieve full flourishing. Wealth above a certain “riches line” lacks value and should be capped at that level. Robeyns claims that limitarianism is justified as a partial theory of economic justice, since vast wealth is a threat to politi…
Revisiting ancient and modern liberty: On de Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History
Annelien de Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History is a rich and thought-provoking work in intellectual history, tracing thinking and debating about political freedom in the West from ancient Greece to our own times. The ancient notion of freedom as self-government (what Quentin Skinner calls neo-roman liberty) is referred to as the ‘democratic conception’. The argument is that this conception survived through the renaissance, the early-modern period …
Discrimination and Irrelevance
This chapter provides a grip on the role, usefulness and challenges of invoking 'irrelevance' as a deciding factor in an account of what discrimination is, and with what is wrong with it. Say that members of a racialized minority group is taxed to a higher percentage of their income than the majority population and that this has nothing to do with their level of income; if anything, the minority group is poorer than the majority population. Grasp…
Freedom Fit for a Feminist? On the Feminist Potential of Quentin Skinner's Conception of Republican Freedom
The aim of this paper is to make it credible that there are feminist reasons for being a republican about freedom. In focus is Quentin Skinner's conception of republican, or “neo-Roman”, freedom. Republican theory in history has not excelled in making poverty, gender hierarchy, and racism within the republic into main sources of concern. So can there be a radical republican theory of liberty fit for a feminist, to make sense of arbitrary power in…
Mary Wollstonecraft's Feminist Critique of Property: On Becoming a Thief from Principle
The scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) is divided concerning her views on women's role in public life, property rights, and distribution of wealth. Her critique of inequality of wealth is undisputed, but is it a complaint only of inequality or does it strike more forcefully at the institution of property? The argument in this article is that Wollstonecraft's feminism is partly defined by a radical critique of property, intertwined wit…
Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophy and Enlightenment
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Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship…
Liberty, Law and Leviathan: Of Being Free from Impediments by Artifice
The argument in this paper is that Hobbes’ theory of freedom in Leviathan allows for four ways of being free to act – corporal freedom by nature, freedom from obligation by nature, the freedom to disobey, and the freedom of no-rule – each corresponding to a particular absence, some of which make sense only in the civil state. Contrary to what some have claimed, this complexity does not commit Hobbes to an unarticulated definition of freedom in te…
To the Editor of Theoria
Kant on Freedom and Obligation Under Law
One of the more puzzling aspects of Kant’s political thought is his insistence on the duty to obey even oppressive rulers combined with his belief in the republic as the only rightful constitutional form. In arguing that resisting oppressive power is as wrong as seizing it, Kant seems committed to the awkward position of denouncing as unrightful any attempts made by the people to establish the only rightful form of constitution. Several roads are…
Building Blocks of a Republican Cosmopolitanism: The Modality of Being Free
A structural affinity between republican freedom as non-domination and human rights claims accounts for the relevance of republicanism for cosmopolitan concerns. Central features of republican freedom are its institution dependence and the modal aspect it adds to being free. Its chief concern is not constraint, but the way in which an agent is constrained or not. To the extent I am vulnerable to someone’s dispositional power over me I am not free…
Hobbes And Republican Liberty
Review of Quentin Skinner's Hobbes and Republican Liberty, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Liberty and Law: Institutional Circumstances of Freedom
In this article I discuss different ways of conceptualising the relation between liberty and law. By ‘law’ I refer throughout to law in the sense of civil law: rules with accompanying sanctions, promulgated by a legislator for the regulation of action in political society. I do not intend to say anything about ‘natural law’, unless I explicitly state otherwise. For the purposes of my argument I will loosely group the positions I discuss under dif…
Locke and the Non-Arbitrary
In this article, John Locke's accounts of political liberty and legitimate government are read as expressions of a normative demand for non-arbitrariness. I argue that Locke locates infringements of political liberty in dependence on the arbitrary will of another, whether or not interference or restraint actually takes place. This way Locke is tentatively placed in that tradition of republican thought recently brought to our attention by Pettit, …
Non-domination and Egalitarian Welfare Politics
Building Blocks of a Republican Cosmopolitanism: The Modality of Being Free
A structural affinity between republican freedom as non-domination and human rights claims accounts for the relevance of republicanism for cosmopolitan concerns. Central features of republican freedom are its institution dependence and the modal aspect it adds to being free. Its chief concern is not constraint, but the way in which an agent is constrained or not. To the extent I am vulnerable to someone’s dispositional power over me I am not free…
Locke and the Non-Arbitrary
In this article, John Locke's accounts of political liberty and legitimate government are read as expressions of a normative demand for non-arbitrariness. I argue that Locke locates infringements of political liberty in dependence on the arbitrary will of another, whether or not interference or restraint actually takes place. This way Locke is tentatively placed in that tradition of republican thought recently brought to our attention by Pettit, …
Mary Wollstonecraft's Feminist Critique of Property: On Becoming a Thief from Principle
The scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) is divided concerning her views on women's role in public life, property rights, and distribution of wealth. Her critique of inequality of wealth is undisputed, but is it a complaint only of inequality or does it strike more forcefully at the institution of property? The argument in this article is that Wollstonecraft's feminism is partly defined by a radical critique of property, intertwined wit…
Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophy and Enlightenment
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Non-domination and Egalitarian Welfare Politics
Locke and the Non-Arbitrary
In this article, John Locke's accounts of political liberty and legitimate government are read as expressions of a normative demand for non-arbitrariness. I argue that Locke locates infringements of political liberty in dependence on the arbitrary will of another, whether or not interference or restraint actually takes place. This way Locke is tentatively placed in that tradition of republican thought recently brought to our attention by Pettit, …
Liberty and Law: Institutional Circumstances of Freedom
In this article I discuss different ways of conceptualising the relation between liberty and law. By ‘law’ I refer throughout to law in the sense of civil law: rules with accompanying sanctions, promulgated by a legislator for the regulation of action in political society. I do not intend to say anything about ‘natural law’, unless I explicitly state otherwise. For the purposes of my argument I will loosely group the positions I discuss under dif…
Hobbes And Republican Liberty
Review of Quentin Skinner's Hobbes and Republican Liberty, Cambridge University Press, 2008
Building Blocks of a Republican Cosmopolitanism: The Modality of Being Free
A structural affinity between republican freedom as non-domination and human rights claims accounts for the relevance of republicanism for cosmopolitan concerns. Central features of republican freedom are its institution dependence and the modal aspect it adds to being free. Its chief concern is not constraint, but the way in which an agent is constrained or not. To the extent I am vulnerable to someone’s dispositional power over me I am not free…
To the Editor of Theoria
Kant on Freedom and Obligation Under Law
One of the more puzzling aspects of Kant’s political thought is his insistence on the duty to obey even oppressive rulers combined with his belief in the republic as the only rightful constitutional form. In arguing that resisting oppressive power is as wrong as seizing it, Kant seems committed to the awkward position of denouncing as unrightful any attempts made by the people to establish the only rightful form of constitution. Several roads are…
Liberty, Law and Leviathan: Of Being Free from Impediments by Artifice
The argument in this paper is that Hobbes’ theory of freedom in Leviathan allows for four ways of being free to act – corporal freedom by nature, freedom from obligation by nature, the freedom to disobey, and the freedom of no-rule – each corresponding to a particular absence, some of which make sense only in the civil state. Contrary to what some have claimed, this complexity does not commit Hobbes to an unarticulated definition of freedom in te…
Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 2, Free Persons and Free States
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 2 considers free persons and free states, examining differing views about freedom of thought and action and their relations to conceptions of citizenship…
Freedom Fit for a Feminist? On the Feminist Potential of Quentin Skinner's Conception of Republican Freedom
The aim of this paper is to make it credible that there are feminist reasons for being a republican about freedom. In focus is Quentin Skinner's conception of republican, or “neo-Roman”, freedom. Republican theory in history has not excelled in making poverty, gender hierarchy, and racism within the republic into main sources of concern. So can there be a radical republican theory of liberty fit for a feminist, to make sense of arbitrary power in…
Mary Wollstonecraft's Feminist Critique of Property: On Becoming a Thief from Principle
The scholarship on Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) is divided concerning her views on women's role in public life, property rights, and distribution of wealth. Her critique of inequality of wealth is undisputed, but is it a complaint only of inequality or does it strike more forcefully at the institution of property? The argument in this article is that Wollstonecraft's feminism is partly defined by a radical critique of property, intertwined wit…
Mary Wollstonecraft: Philosophy and Enlightenment
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Discrimination and Irrelevance
This chapter provides a grip on the role, usefulness and challenges of invoking 'irrelevance' as a deciding factor in an account of what discrimination is, and with what is wrong with it. Say that members of a racialized minority group is taxed to a higher percentage of their income than the majority population and that this has nothing to do with their level of income; if anything, the minority group is poorer than the majority population. Grasp…
Revisiting ancient and modern liberty: On de Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History
Annelien de Dijn’s Freedom: An Unruly History is a rich and thought-provoking work in intellectual history, tracing thinking and debating about political freedom in the West from ancient Greece to our own times. The ancient notion of freedom as self-government (what Quentin Skinner calls neo-roman liberty) is referred to as the ‘democratic conception’. The argument is that this conception survived through the renaissance, the early-modern period …
Why Limitarianism Fails on its Own Premises – an Egalitarian Critique
This article is a critical analysis of Ingrid Robeyns’ “economic limitarianism” (2017, 2019, 2022), the suggestion that there is a moral case against allowing people to be richer than they need to be in order to achieve full flourishing. Wealth above a certain “riches line” lacks value and should be capped at that level. Robeyns claims that limitarianism is justified as a partial theory of economic justice, since vast wealth is a threat to politi…
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