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Květina, Jan
Liberty of Republic as Central European Inheritance? The Political Debates over True Freedom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
The Heritage of Central and Eastern Europe. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023 - (Gajda, K.), s. 55-72. Studies in European Integration, State and Society, 15. ISBN 978-3-631-89859-8
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985963
Klíčová slova: republicanism * liberty * history of ideas * Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * Central European legacy
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The main aim of the paper is to identify the specific notion of liberty in the early modern political discourse of Central European region where a very peculiar phenomenon of the “noble republic” based on the concept of civic sovereignty occurred in the 16th century, whose traditions started to be ideologically reflected already in the Enlightenment context of the 18th century. Hence, the chapter endeavours to analyse the main discursive traits of the local interpretations of liberty of the Central European Enlightenment in the framework of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a specific representative “case study” in the region and on the basis of their assumed connections with the principles of early modern republican political thought to identify whether one can think about the specific Central European tradition of liberty or whether one should consider it as an inherent part of the broader European republicanism.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0347706