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).
“Total Freedom offers a convincing demonstration of how crucial a
role dialectics has played in the work of many of our greatest
philosophers. No one interested in dialectics—or in the problems of
change and interaction on which it centers—can afford to miss
Sciabarra’s scholarly and surprisingly lucid history of dialectical
thinking.”—Bertell Ollman,Author of Alienation and Dialectical
Investigations
“Total Freedom is a first-rate contribution to social theory and
the enduring political project of a free and humane society.”—Peter
Boettke,Author of Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and
Economics of Socialist Transformation
“Total Freedom is a treat: a scholarly tour de force that
successfully integrates seemingly disparate intellectual
traditions, while providing a feast of valuable insights whose
assimilation promises to raise libertarian theory to new heights of
sophistication, flexibility, and theoretical power.”—Roderick T.
Long Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
“Total Freedom marks out a unique, and philosophically and
intellectually sophisticated argument for libertarianism. A short
review focused on the Austrian elements in the book cannot [do]
justice to the breadth and depth of Sciabarra’s scholarship, nor to
the subtlety of his arguments. For those whose interests encompass
both Austrian economics and political philosophy, as well as those
doing Hayek scholarship, this book is a must-read, even if the
historical work on dialectics in the first half is somewhat
abstract and slow-going. Sciabarra’s understanding of Austrian
economics is first-rate and this path-breaking application of those
ideas to both dialectical philosophy and a new set of foundations
for libertarian political philosophy is a perspective that will
demand our attention in the years to come.”—Steven Horwitz Review
of Austrian Economics
“Chris Sciabarra’s Total Freedom is an astonishing work,
astonishing in the depth and breadth of its scholarship, in its
evidence of the use of the dialectic process by philosophers such
as Aristotle, in its discovery of dialectics in the work of
economists such as Murray Rothbard, and—most of all—in the
firsthandedness of its author. Unlike so many other scholars and
historians, Sciabarra looks at the history of philosophy through
his own eyes and his own understanding. As a result, this
beautifully and clearly written book will make the reader reexamine
the history of philosophy and the history of dialectics by means of
a new epistemological perspective: the perspective of dialectics.
Total Freedom is a landmark in philosophical studies and
interpretation.”—Barbara Branden
“In a lucid, scholarly, and daringly original exercise in truly
independent thinking, Chris Sciabarra reclaims the concept of
dialectics and makes its methodology the foundation for a radical
defense of ‘the libertarian vision.’ In his originality, Sciabarra
is a man ahead of his time. He stimulates us with fresh and
provocative perspectives, and challenges us to join him at the
intellectual heights he so persuasively traverses. Must reading for
all those committed to the ideal of a truly free
society.”—Nathaniel Branden
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